ksh script echoing path where script is located

[John Garrott]

Our DBA has created a ksh script that is executable by some developers. When the script is run, it displays the path to the directory that the script resides in. He would like to have this suppressed. Does anyone know of a way to do so?

John Garrott

[Biswajit Tripathy]

Assuming I understand the question correctly, we
have to see the line of script that displays the path to
be able to answer this.

- Biswajit

[Stuart Abramson]

The only way that I can think of that it would echo the path to output is if he has an "echo STRING" statement in the script.

As stated above - let's see the script.

[MAUCCI_2]

Must be doing echo $0?

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi


I pesume you mean that when doing a ps -ef
other users can see the full path.

Use the ln command to make a soft link from the users home dir to the script to run

> /bin/ps -ef|grep ps
root 57 0 0 Mar 11 ? 0:00 supsched
lp 1029 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:10 /usr/sbin/lpsched
root 1281 1 0 Mar 11 ? 1:18 /opt/sharedprint/bin/spserver
steves 5302 5270 3 13:21:48 pts/0 0:00 /bin/ps -ef
>ln -s /bin/ps ps
>./ps -ef|grep ps
root 57 0 0 Mar 11 ? 0:00 supsched
lp 1029 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:10 /usr/sbin/lpsched
root 1281 1 0 Mar 11 ? 1:18 /opt/sharedprint/bin/spserver
steves 5325 5270 4 13:22:21 pts/0 0:00 ./ps -ef



Steve Steel

[Biswajit Tripathy]

Cyrille MAUCCI wrote:
> Must be doing echo $0?

Actually that would only display the program name as
invoked by user. So, if the user does not use absolute
path while running the program, $0 would not display
absolute path. My guess is, the script is using a
command like "which", "type" or "whereis".

- Biswajit