From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 25 12:43:19 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 D53CB37BA3D for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 13ddqT-0003bD-00; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:23:21 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:20:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: To: Ceri Cc: Subject: Re: Shell argument limits at $9 ?? In-Reply-To: <20010925191716.A19791@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Message-ID: System-ID: SunOS 5.8 i86pc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 25 Sep 2001 it looks like Ceri composed: ceri->> ############_snipped_################ ceri->> foo=$@ ceri->> ceri->> echo "9:`echo $foo|awk '{print $9}'`" ceri->> echo "10:`echo $foo|awk '{print $10}'`" ceri->> echo "11:`echo $foo|awk '{print $11}'`" ceri->> ##################################### ceri-> ceri->Well, I'm not convinced that will work either to be honest, but at least ceri->you tried to find a way round it. ceri-> I had cut-n-pasted in the script and it has a "$@" for foo=$@ and I guess I missed the full cut. -- 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