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Operating Systems Solaris Special symbols in shell scripting Post 302277931 by bsddaemon on Sunday 18th of January 2009 10:42:32 PM
Old 01-18-2009
Extracted from Solaris Bourne shell man page:

Quote:
# The number of positional parameters in
decimal.

- Flags supplied to the shell on invocation or
by the set command.

? The decimal value returned by the last syn-
chronously executed command.
In the examples:

1. If the number of parameter is equal to 3, then...

2. If the error code of previous application is 0, then...
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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