The Real Linux World
Mark Sargent
powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp
Thu Apr 28 07:37:44 UTC 2005
Joel wrote:
>>Can anyone explain this in plain English.? I understand that a portion of messages is being written to mesg.temp,
>>and that the rest is deleted. Just don't get where $1 and $LINES is being generated from. Cheers.
>>
>>
>
>man sh
>
>and look for "positional parameters".
>
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>
Hi All,
thanx, Joel. I got the answer from someone on another forum. I had
missed that $LINES was already set to 50 and that $1 is just an argument
replacer(?).
$ ./first-script.sh arg1 arg2 arg3
In this case, $1 = arg1 , $2 = arg2 , $3 = arg3 and so on.
Note that $0 = ./first-script.sh
Whilst I appreciate the power of man, sometimes it's cryptic in the way
it speaks to you. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
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