morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell) (03/19/88)
/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / kk@richp1.UUCP (Ken Konecki) / 9:01 am Mar 15, 1988 / I've found an interesting problem with the korn and bourne shells when it comes to dealing with command line parameters. When this script: echo "Number of parameters: ${#}" for arg in $* do echo "Argument is $arg" done with the line script '1 2 3' 4 5 6 the shell(s) output this: Number of parameters: 4 Argument is 1 Argument is 2 Argument is 3 Argument is 4 Argument is 5 Argument is 6 ------ The second line of your script should be: for arg in "$@" Otherwise, the shell is reexpanding the arguments, stripping off the quotes.