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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: evaluating ${10} and above in sh/ksh
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.112611.15273@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 11:26:11 GMT
References: <514@risky.Convergent.COM> <7300@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <514@risky.Convergent.COM>,
	chrisb@risky.Convergent.COM (Chris Bertin) writes:
"There doesn't seem to be a way, in sh or ksh, to evaluate $10 and higher.
"$10 and higher are evaluated as ${1}0, ${1}1, etc...
"		     instead of ${10}, ${11}, etc...

in ksh88, ${10}, ${11}, etc. are evaluated correctly, but YOU MUST
BRACE THE ARGUMENTS!  $10 and $11 are evaluated as you experienced.

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