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From: alex@impch.imp.com (Alex Hanselmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Killing the correct process
Message-ID: <1975@impch.imp.com>
Date: 12 Mar 90 13:03:56 GMT
References: <22332@adm.BRL.MIL> <5312@star.cs.vu.nl> <1212@root44.co.uk> <5352@star.cs.vu.nl> <1221@root44.co.uk> <5448@star.cs.vu.nl> <1381@root44.co.uk> <5669@star.cs.vu.nl>
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In article <5669@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

>You shouldn't say too quickly: "The user doesn't need it."
>That's the approach which leads to things like:
>
>	$ set a b c d e f g h i j
>	$ echo $10	# echo parameter 10
>	a0		# oops!
>
>"The user doesn't need more than 9 arguments."

if you have a ksh or csh you can type:

$ echo ${10}

Alex
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