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Re: Bash reference manual errata
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash reference manual errata |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:06:53 -0400 |
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On 7/10/20 4:24 AM, 홍홍 wrote:
> In Bourne shell
> builtin(https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins>),
> shift command
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> "Parameters represented by the numbers $# to $#-n+1 are unset."
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> should be
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> "Parameters represented by the numbers $1 to $#-n+1 are unset."
No, the existing text is correct. If you have six positional parameters,
so $# == 6, and you execute `shift 2', $5 and $6 are unset.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/