Can $1 be set in a script

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:12:54 GMT, larryalk staggered into the Black Sun and said:

This question has absolutely nothing to do with X. Followup set to col.misc.

That's not how buttignment works in bash in the general case. If you try "$FOO='bar' ", you get an error. Are you using a different shell? In bash, you need to do "FOO='bar' " to buttign the value 'bar' to variable FOO. And positional parameters are different; you have to use something like the following:

#!-bin-bash echo "pos params=$1 $2" set 'crud' 'barf' echo "after set, pos params=$1 $2" # end positional.sh

clairissa:~-bin$ .-positional.sh stuff junk pos params=stuff junk after set, pos params=crud barf

...just calling "1='crud' " won't work because variables have to start with a letter. grep for 'shell builtin commands' in the bash man page for directions on what else set can do.

Huh? Putting a set command in a script changes that script. If you have something critical in a script, before you change it, make a backup, then understand whatever it is that script does before changing it. And don't be surprised when your first attempt at doing something new does something totally stupid. HTH,

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