11-22-2012
@agama, don' think ksh supports the substring expansion and certainly bash will evaluate the length field so ${infile:0:len-4} is acceptable.
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PARAMETERS
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ARGUMENTS
If [arguments...] are present and if no -e or -f option is used, then the first argument is the script file and the rest of the arguments,
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jrunscript -e "cat('http://java.sun.com')"
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jrunscript -l js -f test.js
Interactive mode
jrunscript
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