Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:17:16 +0100 From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell argument limits at $9 ?? Message-ID: <20010925191716.A19791@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109251045080.18238-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>; from bill@wiliweld.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:52:15AM -0700 References: <20010925175028.A29628@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0109251045080.18238-100000@corten8.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:52:15AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft said:
> At Tue, 25 Sep 2001 it looks like Ceri composed:
>
> ceri->On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:43:53AM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft said:
> ceri->> testit a b c d e f g h i j k l m
> ceri->>
> ceri->> and then I go to echo $9 and it shows "i" but when I echo $10 it
> ceri->> shows "a0" and $11 shows "a1" apparently in hex.
> ceri->
> ceri->echo ${10}
> ceri->
>
> Jeez, you made that look easy. I ended up using
>
>
> ############_snipped_################
> foo=$
>
> echo "9:`echo $foo|awk '{print $9}'`"
> echo "10:`echo $foo|awk '{print $10}'`"
> echo "11:`echo $foo|awk '{print $11}'`"
> #####################################
Well, I'm not convinced that will work either to be honest, but at least
you tried to find a way round it.
> Thanks for the help, it's for a Shell course I'm taking.
>
> Jeez, I can't tell you the surprise I had when $10 didn't work (blush)
No problem - good luck with it.
Ceri
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