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Re: let's set the positional parameters with a simple 'read'


From: Stephane CHAZELAS
Subject: Re: let's set the positional parameters with a simple 'read'
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:04:30 +0000 (UTC)
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2012-01-04, 01:46(+08), jidanni@jidanni.org:
>>>>>> "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?

FWIW, in zsh:

~$ read -A argv
a b c
~$ echo $1
a
~$ read 1
x
~$ echo $1
x

See also

vared argv
and
vared 1

to edit them with the zsh line editor (zle, the bash equivalent
would be readline as invoked by read -e)

-- 
Stephane




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