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From: brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can you access command line args from a source'd script?
Summary: Not really, but you can fake it with an alias!
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Date: 27 Aug 90 15:26:53 GMT
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I had to do this once! What I had to do was create an alias:

	alias mycmd "set my_argv = ( \!* ); source myfile"

then `myfile' could go around using `my_argv' like scripts use $argv;
Big drawback to this approach is that you have to be real carefule not
to stomp on things in the environment since you are NOT a separate shell.
You should probably take care to unset any variables that you used and 
be REAL careful not to overwrite any pre-existing variables (unless you
know what you are doing with the variables in question).
______________________ "And miles to go before I sleep." ______________________
 Brad Appleton        brad@travis.ssd.csd.harris.com   Harris Computer Systems
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