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From: roger@ll-xn.ARPA (Roger Hale)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Re: C-Shell weirdness  (How to get 0 words)
Message-ID: <297@ll-xn.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 11:52:00 EST
Article-I.D.: ll-xn.297
Posted: Fri Mar 28 11:52:00 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 16:17:21 EST
References: <676@nbires.UUCP> <2021@hao.UUCP> <196@cfa.UUCP>
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Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Summary: try set foo=()

In article <196@cfa.UUCP>, wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt) writes:
> > ... If you do
> > 
> > set hosed
> > echo $#hosed
> > 
> > THEN you will get 0.
> 
> Small problem: on my system (Ultrix 32m 1.1) the above gives 1, not 0.

set foo=()
echo $#foo

gives me 0.  (4.2bsd vax.)  I suspect it will elsewhere too.

Roger Hale	Internet:  roger@ll-xn.arpa