2012-01-04, 01:46(+08), jida...@jidanni.org: >>>>>> "GW" == Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: >GW> Why not just use a named array? >GW> $ read -a myarray > But does that let me get a my favorite array, the positional parameters?
FWIW, in zsh: ~$ read -A argv a b c ~$ echo $1 a ~$ read 1 x ~$ echo $1 x See also vared argv and vared 1 to edit them with the zsh line editor (zle, the bash equivalent would be readline as invoked by read -e) -- Stephane
