Strake dixit: >shift $(dc -e "$OPTIND 1 - p");
*what*?! shift $(($OPTIND-1)) is POSIX. bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh