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    Question shell script

    how do i write a csh script, that uses its first argument (a number) to specify which one of its remaining arguments to echo?

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    Code:
    shift ${1}
    echo ${1}
    ... and with a script called ss, it looks like this:
    Code:
    $ ss 3 this is a test line
    a
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