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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /bin/sh
Message-ID: <5112@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 16 Jan 90 08:00:39 GMT
References: <620@dr.uucp> <21838@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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In article <21838@mimsy.umd.edu>,
	chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
\...
\	$ eval echo $"$#"
\...
\but for a small problem with sh argument syntax:
\
\	$ set a b c d e f g h i j k l
\	$ echo $11
\	a1

A ridiculous feature which should have been fixed long ago...
Similar:
	exec 10< foo 11> bar
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