Stephane Chazelas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It still doesn't explain why ${@:1:1} expands to $1 and not $2
For positional parameters indexing starts at 1. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."