Re: "can't shift that many"

[eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen)]

Johann Franz writes:
- BTW, this seems to randomly occur on different stages of the
- install process, always "can't shift that many".

which OS?

It sounds like a shell loop is trying to shift more than 10
elements at one time.. The classic (circa v7->sVr3) Bourne shell
had a limit on the value of the shift argument, which I recall
was 10.

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