Re: BASH_ENV and $0

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/22/21 9:06 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> But that does not work: it turns out that $0 is always "/bin/bash" in
> .bashenv (or just "bash" if called as "bash script"). Apparently $0 is
> only set to the script name after .bashenv has been processed, and it
> isn't in any other environment variable either.

I took another look at this -- this is not the first request to make the
shell script filename available in startup files -- and I don't think
that it will break anything or add an incompatibility to set $0 as
requested here.

Chet


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