How do I know the script file name in a Bash scrip

Question

How can I determine the name of the Bash script file inside the script itself?

Like if my script is in file runme.sh, then how would I make it to display "You are running runme.sh" message without hardcoding that?

Answer 1

somthing like this?

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
#!/bin/bash
#!/bin/sh

#----------------------------------------------------------------------
start_trash(){
ver="htrash.sh v0.0.4"
$TRASH_DIR  # url to trash $MY_USER
$TRASH_SIZE # Show Trash Folder Size

echo "Would you like to empty Trash  [y/n]?"
read ans
if [ $ans = y -o $ans = Y -o $ans = yes -o $ans = Yes -o $ans = YES ]
then
echo "'yes'"
cd $TRASH_DIR && $EMPTY_TRASH
fi
if [ $ans = n -o $ans = N -o $ans = no -o $ans = No -o $ans = NO ]
then
echo "'no'"
fi
 return $TRUE
} 
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------

start_help(){
echo "HELP COMMANDS-----------------------------"
echo "htest www                 open a homepage "
echo "htest trash               empty trash     "
 return $TRUE
} #end Help
#-----------------------------------------------#

homepage=""

return $TRUE
} #end cpdebtemp

# -Case start
# if no command line arg given
# set val to Unknown
if [ -z $1 ]
then
  val="*** Unknown  ***"
elif [ -n $1 ]
then
# otherwise make first arg as val
  val=$1
fi
# use case statement to make decision for rental
case $val in
   "trash") start_trash ;;
   "help") start_help ;;
   "www") firefox $homepage ;;
   *) echo "Sorry, I can not get a $val   for you!";;
esac
# Case stop

Answer 2

Info thanks to Bill Hernandez. I added some preferences I'm adopting.

#!/bin/bash
function Usage(){
    echo " Usage: show_parameters [ arg1 ][ arg2 ]"
}
[[ ${#2} -eq 0 ]] && Usage || {
    echo
    echo "# arguments called with ---->  ${@}     "
    echo "# \$1 ----------------------->  $1       "
    echo "# \$2 ----------------------->  $2       "
    echo "# path to me --------------->  ${0}     " | sed "s/$USER/\$USER/g"
    echo "# parent path -------------->  ${0%/*}  " | sed "s/$USER/\$USER/g"
    echo "# my name ------------------>  ${0##*/} "
    echo
}

Cheers

Answer 3

Re: Tanktalus's (accepted) answer above, a slightly cleaner way is to use:

me=$(readlink --canonicalize --no-newline $0)

If your script has been sourced from another bash script, you can use:

me=$(readlink --canonicalize --no-newline $BASH_SOURCE)

I agree that it would be confusing to dereference symlinks if your objective is to provide feedback to the user, but there are occasions when you do need to get the canonical name to a script or other file, and this is the best way, imo.

Answer 4

You can use $0 to determine your script name (with full path) - to get the script name only you can trim that variable with

basename $0

Answer 5

me=`basename "$0"`

For reading through a symlink, which is usually not what you want (you usually don't want to confuse the user this way), try:

me="$(basename "$(test -L "$0" && readlink "$0" || echo "$0")")"

IMO, that'll produce confusing output. "I ran foo.sh, but it's saying I'm running bar.sh!? Must be a bug!" Besides, one of the purposes of having differently-named symlinks is to provide different functionality based on the name it's called as (think gzip and gunzip on some platforms).

Answer 6

echo "You are running $0"