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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to print number before argument? Post 302518980 by Perderabo on Monday 2nd of May 2011 04:58:33 PM
Old 05-02-2011
One way:
Code:
$ cat nargs
#! /bin/ksh

i=0
while ((i<$#)) ; do
        ((i=i+1))
        eval arg=\$$i
        echo ${i}:${arg}
done
exit 0
$ ./nargs a b c d
1:a
2:b
3:c
4:d
$

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ns_sockasyncconnect

Ns_Sock(3aolserver)					   AOLserver Library Procedures 				       Ns_Sock(3aolserver)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Ns_BindSock,  Ns_GetSockAddr,  Ns_SockAccept,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect,  Ns_SockAsyncConnect2,  Ns_SockBind, Ns_SockCloseLater, Ns_SockConnect,
       Ns_SockConnect2, Ns_SockListen, Ns_SockListenEx, Ns_SockPipe, Ns_SockSetBlocking, Ns_SockSetNonBlocking, Ns_SockStrError,  Ns_SockTimedCon-
       nect, Ns_SockTimedConnect2, ns_pipe, ns_sockpair - library procedures

SYNOPSIS

       #include "ns.h"

       Ns_BindSock(arg, arg)

       Ns_GetSockAddr(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAccept(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockAsyncConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockBind(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockCloseLater(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockConnect2(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListen(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockListenEx(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockPipe(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockSetNonBlocking(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockStrError(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect(arg, arg)

       Ns_SockTimedConnect2(arg, arg)

       ns_pipe(arg, arg)

       ns_sockpair(arg, arg)
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DESCRIPTION

       These functions ...

SEE ALSO

       nsd(1), info(n)

KEYWORDS

AOLserver								4.0						       Ns_Sock(3aolserver)
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