On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:53 +0200, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > See, another use of bash arrays just because you can?
> > IFS=-
> > set -- ${CHOST}
> > spec=$2
> >
> > Works fine in bash - and other shells.
>
> Do I understand correctly that this resets any arguments that might have been
> passed to the function this happens to be in?
Yes it does.
Most people write their functions like so
foo() {
local this=$1 that=$2
And then use $this and $that for greater clarity. So if they do that
then resetting the positional parameters is a non issue as they've
already been saved.
Thanks
Roy
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