From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 17 01:00:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28565 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28519 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA17324; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:00:16 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980617180012.64598@welearn.com.au> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:00:12 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Nik Clayton Cc: Tim Gerchmez , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine and Pico References: <3.0.5.32.19980615232720.007f66f0@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980615232720.007f66f0@mx.serv.net> <19980617002803.07527@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980616123420.007ede10@mx.serv.net> <19980617002151.21641@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980617002151.21641@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:21:51AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:21:51AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:34:20PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > (1) My question was so simple I was sure it has been asked before. > > That being the case, please take the time to use the mailing list archives > at and facilities like DejaNews (at > . > > Or there's always the system manual pages. A quick > > % man sh > > would show you the information you're looking for in the "Invocation" > section. Of course, the "Invocation" section! Jeez, I'd never have thought of that word, glad you mentioned it :-) > Alternatively, you could look at some existing shell scripts on your > system to see if they do it. /etc/rc, /etc/rc.serial and /etc/rc.firewall > have examples of examining the positional parameters passed to a script > (although, granted, they're not the easiest code to understand). "positional parameters"? I reckon it'd be much easier to get info out of man pages if some of these words were more familiar, and I guess that sort of grows on you after doing battle with man pages for a while. There isn't a glossary anywhere, is there? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message