Joel wrote: >>Can anyone explain this in plain English.? I understand that a portion of messages is being written to mesg.temp, >>and that the rest is deleted. Just don't get where $1 and $LINES is being generated from. Cheers. >> >> > >man sh > >and look for "positional parameters". > >-- >Joel Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> >digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム >Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 >** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> ** > > > Hi All, thanx, Joel. I got the answer from someone on another forum. I had missed that $LINES was already set to 50 and that $1 is just an argument replacer(?). $ ./first-script.sh arg1 arg2 arg3 In this case, $1 = arg1 , $2 = arg2 , $3 = arg3 and so on. Note that $0 = ./first-script.sh Whilst I appreciate the power of man, sometimes it's cryptic in the way it speaks to you. Cheers. Mark Sargent.
