The Real Linux World

Thu Apr 28 06:53:08 UTC 2005

> Can anyone explain this in plain English.? I understand that a portion of messages is being written to mesg.temp,
> and that the rest is deleted. Just don't get where $1 and $LINES is being generated from. Cheers.

man sh

and look for "positional parameters".

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