Re: "can't shift that many"

To: eric%cirr.com@localhost
Subject: Re: "can't shift that many"
From: Havard Eidnes <he%uninett.no@localhost>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:35:18 +0100 (CET)

> It sounds like a shell loop is trying to shift more than 10
> elements at one time..

Another possible case is that the Bourne shell built-in "shift" is
running out of arguments to shift, ref:

% sh
$ shift
shift: can't shift that many
$ 

Regards,

- Håvard

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References:
- Re: "can't shift that many"
  - From: Johann Franz
- Re: "can't shift that many"
  - From: Eric Schnoebelen

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