Interesting $0 Problem

[Tim Daneliuk]

On 10/27/2016 08:49 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 08:30:40PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> I was fidding with some shell code today and discovered it was breaking
>> because $0 was returning "-/usr/local/bin/bash".   Why is there a leading
>> dash here?  I've not seen that before.
> 
> How are you invoking the expansion, i.e., from a file or the
> command-line?  Is this a login shell?
> 
> What do you get from the command-line with <echo "$0">?
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My .bashrc source as standard startup profile:

  . mystartup

Inside mystartup the folloing statement exists:

  source foo.sh

$0 as reported in foo.sh is coming back with "-/usr/local/bin/bash"...

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