Re: Can $1 be set in a script?

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:46:02 -0500, "Chris F.A. Johnson"
On 2006-03-30, larryalk wrote:

Can $1 be set to something else in a script?
set -- teststring "$@" ## "$@" adds existing positional parameters

Chris I apologize because I didn't see how your 'set' line worked.
I thought the 'set ' would just give me a single string instead of
parsing the command line parameters into $1 $2 etc.

When I tested it worked perfectly:

I made a little executable and found that
set "$@"
echo $1 $2
gave me:

testprog one two three
testprog: one two

That's the answer I needed.
Sorry I didn't see it the first time.

or
$1=$($2)

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

set -- "$($2)"

What does the double dash do?

Larry


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