On 01/03/2012 10:16 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > One can do > $ read p > to set $p > but no just as easy method to set $@, $1, etc. > One must do > $ set -- `cat` #which involves ^D, "too much trouble" > Or set -- `read x; echo "$x"` etc.
No need for a subshell to do what you want. Just do: read p set -- "$p" to set $1, or read p set -- $p to set all of $@ according to the IFS splitting of $p. > > So I propose we 'wreck the language' to allow me to do > $ read @ > to set $@, same with 1, 2,.. * (almost the same as @). Sorry, I don't think this is worth doing. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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