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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:43:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Shell argument limits at $9 ??
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109250836490.18238-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>

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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)

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