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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:49:00 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: set fnord foo
Message-ID:  <20021001054900.GX30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20020930202647.GA7147@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20020930104434.GM30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020930202647.GA7147@dan.emsphone.com>

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# dnelson@allantgroup.com / 2002-09-30 15:26:47 -0500:
> In the last episode (Sep 30), Roman Neuhauser said:
> > could anyone tell me what $subject does? i can't find any
> > explanation. man pages for sh(1) (freebsd) and bash(1) (linux) don't
> > mention fnord.
> > 
> > what does it do?
> 
> The set command will set $1, $2, etc as though the arguments were
> passed to the script itself on the commandline.  So after a "set fnord
> foo", you could do
> 
> $ echo $#
> 2
> $ echo $1
> fnord
> $ echo $*
> fnord foo
> 
> As for what fnord does?  It gives you a headache.

    yeah, i figured out i made a complete fool of myself after a bit
    more rtfming and googling (FOLDOC). now if i only knew why oh why is
    mkinstalldirs written this way.

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