From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 9:45:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEEB37B41C for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13daT6-0003Uf-00 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:47:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Shell argument limits at $9 ?? Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, In a script I'm working on called "testit" it calls for echoing the arguments entered. This issue seems to reveal itself as follows when I execute the following. testit a b c d e f g h i j k l m and then I go to echo $9 and it shows "i" but when I echo $10 it shows "a0" and $11 shows "a1" apparently in hex. [question] How can I set the argument limit higher in the shell environment. The shell is GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386--freebsd4.2) -- Bill Schoolcraft | PO Box 210076 San Francisco, CA 94121 http://ForwardSlashUnix.com "UNIX, A Way of Life." rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message