Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:26:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: set fnord foo Message-ID: <20020930202647.GA7147@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020930104434.GM30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20020930104434.GM30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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In the last episode (Sep 30), Roman Neuhauser said: > could anyone tell me what $subject does? i can't find any > explanation. man pages for sh(1) (freebsd) and bash(1) (linux) don't > mention fnord. > > what does it do? The set command will set $1, $2, etc as though the arguments were passed to the script itself on the commandline. So after a "set fnord foo", you could do $ echo $# 2 $ echo $1 fnord $ echo $* fnord foo As for what fnord does? It gives you a headache. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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