--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brad De Vries wrote, > > You could try: > > --------- > > TOTCNT=$# > > for ((NUM=1; NUM <= $TOTCNT; NUM++)) > > do > > echo "$NUM: $1" > > shift > > done > > --------- > > Wouldn't this kind of leave me stuck if I were to > want to do something > with any of the parameters later on? I notice from > the man page that you > can't shift them back. > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > David Aikema
You are correct, you cannot shift the positional parameters back onto the stack once they've been shifted off. I didn't realize that you wanted to retain their position for use later on. In that case, I would take one of the other suggestions and simply: #!/bin/sh NUM=0 for i in $*; do let NUM=$NUM+1 echo "$NUM: $i" done You might also be able to use the 'eval' builtin command. Brad. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
