Re: Bash reference manual errata

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Bash reference manual errata
Date	2020-07-10 09:06 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 7/10/20 4:24 AM, 홍홍 wrote:
> In Bourne shell builtin(https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bourne-Shell-Builtins>), shift command
> 
> 
> "Parameters represented by the numbers $# to $#-n+1 are unset."
> 
> should be
> 
> "Parameters represented by the numbers $1 to $#-n+1 are unset."

No, the existing text is correct. If you have six positional parameters,
so $# == 6, and you execute `shift 2', $5 and $6 are unset.


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