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Re: let's set the positional parameters with a simple 'read'
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Eric Blake |
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Re: let's set the positional parameters with a simple 'read' |
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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:52:54 -0700 |
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On 01/03/2012 10:46 AM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>>>>>> "GW" == Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> GW> Why not just use a named array?
> GW> $ read -a myarray
> But does that let me get a my favorite array, the positional parameters?
Any time you want to assign the positional parameters, use set. It's as
simple as that. What's wrong with:
read -a myarray
set -- "${myarray[@]}"
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