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jan6 on Aug 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Shell Am I Using?

what happened to the simple invocation of `which "$(echo $0)"` ?

em500 on Aug 31, 2020 [–]

As the author notes in the 2nd section, that will return the location of the binary in the user path, which is not necessarily the one that is currently running.

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