Re: Can $1 be set in a script?

On 2006-03-30, larryalk wrote:
Can $1 be set to something else in a script?

[I don't think this is the right groups for this question]

For exampe:
$1=teststring

set -- teststring "$@" ## "$@" adds existing positional parameters

or
$1=$($2)

Is that what you want? to put the output from a command in $2 into
$1?

set -- "$($2)"

I have scripts with $1 in them that I don't want to change.

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