diff --git a/client/CHANGELOG.md b/client/CHANGELOG.md
index 9d5c168..61e33ca 100644
--- a/client/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/client/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ The **patch** part changes is incremented if multiple releases happen the same m
 
 ### Changed
 
+* evobackupctl: simplify the program path retrieval
+
 ### Deprecated
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/client/bin/evobackupctl b/client/bin/evobackupctl
index 3399694..44faba6 100644
--- a/client/bin/evobackupctl
+++ b/client/bin/evobackupctl
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # shellcheck disable=SC2155
-readonly PROGNAME=$(basename "${0}")
-# shellcheck disable=SC2155
-readonly PROGDIR=$(readlink -m "$(dirname "${0}")")
+readonly PROGPATH=$(readlink -m "${0}")
+readonly PROGNAME=$(basename "${PROGPATH}")
 # shellcheck disable=SC2124
 readonly ARGS=$@
 
@@ -78,7 +77,8 @@ copy_template() {
         if cp "${LIBDIR}/zzz_evobackup.sh" "${dest_path}"; then
             chmod 750 "${dest_path}"
 
-            sed -i "s|@COMMAND@|${PROGDIR}/${PROGNAME} ${ARGS}|" "${dest_path}"
+            # Insert metadata about the template
+            sed -i "s|@COMMAND@|${PROGPATH} ${ARGS}|" "${dest_path}"
             sed -i "s|@DATE@|$(date --iso-8601=seconds)|" "${dest_path}"
             sed -i "s|@VERSION@|${VERSION}|" "${dest_path}"