C-Shell weirdness
Bill Wyatt
wyatt at cfa.UUCP
Fri Mar 28 08:50:23 AEST 1986
> ... If you do
>
> set hosed
> echo $#hosed
>
> THEN you will get 0. The difference? A null string is different from no value
> at all. ...
Small problem: on my system (Ultrix 32m 1.1) the above gives 1, not 0.
No, I did an `unset hosed' first to make sure no garbage was left behind.
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