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Old 10-09-2008
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Code:
for arg; do
  if is_num $arg; then

   for num; do
     ....
   done

This looks like sh/ksh/bash scripting. The question is, what are "arg" and "num"?? is this in a shell function or is this found in the "main" part of the shell script?