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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: "set" question for Bourne shell scripts
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 10:13:48 EST
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> The Bourne shell allows you to set the positional parameters with:
> 	set a b c d e
> 	$# yields 5
> regardless of the parameters given to the shell script on the command line.
> 
> Now, my question is, how do you remove all parameters, i.e. set $# to 0?

Try: set x; shift

'set x' creates a list of one parameter, x, then 'shift' deletes
that one parameter.

Gary Samuelson