Re: counting shell args

[Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>]

At 12:57 PM 12/16/02, Mike Dresser wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Scott Taylor wrote:
>
> > >if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
> >
> > Man!  That's been driving me nuts for like an hour now!  Thanks.  It's
> > still driving me nuts why I couldn't find it in man bash or man test 
> though.
>
>#      Expands  to  the number of positional parameters in
>               decimal.

I saw that, and chose to ignore it, last time that happens. lol

>Doesn't exactly jump out and say, "HEY, I COUNT PARAMETERS"

No kidding.  Heh, it's what happens when you run such a tight ship you 
rarely need to do anything but play doom/quake to run those network tests. =P

>I looked for many hours for that one myself when making a backup script.
>Very annoying :)

Yeah, very.  I remember once about 10 years ago someone told me that if I 
study UNIX and can't find something, it's because the attitude is: "you 
don't need to know that!"  Now I know what he meant.  Good thing it's no 
longer like that. LMAO.

Cheers Mike.