Question

I want the name of the file where the code is written

for example if the script is written in a file called “name.sh”

then i want to have a variable for example

var=name.sh

where var will hold the file’s name

but suppose that i don’t know the name of the file, how can I do it?

Answer 1

You can use basename.

basename – strip directory and suffix from filenames

var=$(basename $0)