Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:07:44 -0700
From: Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org>
Message-ID: <202503101607.52ag7i3x023...@nfbcal.org>
| #!/bin/sh
| # Test retrieving command arguments by using numeric values.
|
| arg1=$1
| arg2=$2
| arg3=$3
| arg4=$4
| arg5=$5
| arg6=$6
| arg6=$6
| arg7=$7
| arg8=$8
| arg9=$9
| arg10=$10
| arg10=$10
| arg11=$11
This is a simple one, $10 is $1 followed by a '0' - old NetBSD shells
used to get it wrong, and treat that as the 10th arg, that was simply
a bug that was fixed somewhere in the netbsd7 or netbsd8 timeframe.
To reference positional args > $9 you need to use braces ${10} etc.
That is, without the braces, only a single digit is treated as the
parameter identifier.
That's always been the rule. There were lots of bugs in our shell that
long ago (and earlier, of course).
kre
