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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
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Subject: Re: "set" question for Bourne shell scripts
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Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 15:30:30 EST
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> > Now, my question is, how do you remove all parameters, i.e. set $# to 0?
> 
> try
> 	shift $#

Alas, this fails (at least on our 4.1bsd system) if $# was zero to begin with.
Instead try
	set x ; shift
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