Interesting $0 Problem

[Alphons van Werven]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> Old Dog, New Tricks etc.  Thanks for the help :)

Perhaps you already knew, but if you wish to obtain the value of $0 with
the leading dash (if present) stripped, you can use ${0#-} for that, e.g.
FOO=${0#-}

Fonz

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