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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 04:14:52PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/21/20 4:13 PM, William Theisen wrote:
> > I've just tested this, it's a little awkward but does actually work. Thanks
> > for the suggestion I'll play around with making it a little more
> > convenient to use. Thanks for your time.
> 
> If you don't want to destroy your script's positional parameters, you can
> wrap your loop in a shell function, which has its own set.

Or use an indexed array variable.