Re: Differences between bash-1.12 and ksh88

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:30

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In article <1992Aug3.214728.7399@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> bruce@blazin.dsg.dec.com (bruce draper) writes:
>bash-1.12
>
>-- doesn't support an expression shift count, i.e.
>        shift 3-1
>   and what's worse, bash is silent about it :-(

   It shouldn't be silent.  However, the functionality does exist in a
slightly different form:

        shift $[ 3-1 ]

Read the man page about the "$[ ... ]" feature.

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