ARGV0(1)

NAME
argv0 - runs a program with a specified 0th argument.

SYNOPSIS

argv0 {realname} {zero} {args}

DESCRIPTION

realname is one argument. zero is one argument. args is any number of arguments.

argv0 runs the program stored as realname on disk, with zero as the 0th argument (rather than realname) and args as the remaining arguments.

APPLICATIONS

Some programs pay special attention to the 0th argument. argv0 makes these programs usable from shell scripts. For example, argv0 /bin/csh -csh runs /bin/csh with a 0th argument of -csh. /bin/csh will think it is a login shell and behave accordingly. As another example, the command tcpserver 0 ftp argv0 tcpd ftpd -l -A has a similar effect to the line

    ftp stream tcp nowait root tcpd ftpd -l -A

in /etc/inetd.conf. The tcpd program is run with 0th argument [ftpd] and remaining arguments [-l] [-A]. Note that tcpd can and should be replaced by the [-x] option of tcpserver(1): tcpserver -x ftp.tcp 0 ftp ftpd -l -A .SH "SEE ALSO"

tcpserver(1)

tcprules(1)

tcprulescheck(1)

fixcrio(1)

recordio(1)

rblsmtpd(1)

tcpclient(1)

who@(1)

date@(1)

finger@(1)

http@(1)

tcpcat(1)

mconnect(1)

tcp-environ(5)

AUTHOR

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Converted to DocBook XML by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.