"set" question for Bourne shell scripts

Guy Harris guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Sun Feb 17 06:31:53 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.

I did try it with the System III shell; it said:

	unset: not found

"unset" must have been added in System V Release 1.0 or 2.0.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy



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