"set" question for Bourne shell scripts

Dwight Ernest dwight at timeb.UUCP
Thu Feb 14 11:51:05 AEST 1985


> The Bourne shell allows you to set the positional parameters with:
> 	set a b c d e
> Now, my question is, how do you remove all parameters, i.e. set $# to 0?

Try 'unset *'. Should work.
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