In the last episode (Sep 30), Roman Neuhauser said:
> could anyone tell me what $subject does? i can't find any
> explanation. man pages for sh(1) (freebsd) and bash(1) (linux) don't
> mention fnord.
>
> what does it do?
The set command will set $1, $2, etc as though the arguments were
passed to the script itself on the commandline. So after a "set fnord
foo", you could do
$ echo $#
2
$ echo $1
fnord
$ echo $*
fnord foo
As for what fnord does? It gives you a headache.
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