Re: proposed BASH_SOURCE_PATH

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/26/24 8:17 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, 03:14 Chet Ramey, <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
>
>     On 6/19/24 6:12 PM, konsolebox wrote:
>
>      > Alternatively, have BASH_SOURCE always produce real physical paths
>      > either by default or through a shopt.
>
>     This is the best option. I don't think changing bash to do this by
>     default would have negative side-effects.
>
>
> Just to be clear, would this result in $0 and ${BASH_SOURCE[@]:(-1):1} 
> potentially yielding different values?

Yes.

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