12-04-2013
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Originally Posted by
disedorgue
For information, from my "solution" with shift command, it was on solaris 10 (/usr/bin/sh).
It is possible that a shopt or set -o option is missing ?
Regards.
Note that neither Solaris 10 /usr/bin/sh nor Solaris 8 /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh (I thought it was /bin/sh on a Solaris 8 system, but it has been many years since I had access to a Solaris 8 system) is a Korn shell; they are Bourne shells. But both Bourne and Korn shells should be happy with ${12} when there are that many command line arguments no matter what shell options are enabled.
Of course you can use
shift 10 to access positional parameters 11 through 19 as $1 through $9, respectively, in a Bourne or Korn shell. But after the shift, the original positional parameters $1 through ${10} (if it worked) will no longer be available unless they were saved into other variables before the
shift 10. If ${10} isn't working and you need to access the 10th positional parameter, presumably you'd want to use
shift 9 rather than
shift 10 so you could process groups of 9 positional parameters at a time. Even after a shift, $0 should remain unchanged (but if ${11} doesn't work, I won't make any claims about how $0 will behave after any invocation of
shift).
Have you or pat_pramod tried running any of these scripts with /usr/xpg4/bin/sh or with ksh instead of using /usr/bin/sh or /bin/sh?
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platform::shell
platform::shell(n) Tcl Bundled Packages platform::shell(n)
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NAME
platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?
platform::shell::generic shell
platform::shell::identify shell
platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION
The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.
This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.
While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell
this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.
For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed
packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.
COMMANDS
platform::shell::identify shell
This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.
platform::shell::generic shell
This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.
platform::shell::platform shell
This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.
KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture
platform::shell 1.1.4 platform::shell(n)