Getting an arbitary item from a list

Posted on by mikal

This script gets the specified element form the list on the command line…



#!/bin/bash


# Select a specified item from a list. Copyright (c) Michael Still 2002

# Released under the terms of the GNU GPL


# $1 is the number to get, $* except for $1 is the list of options, delimited

# by a space each


# We can the shift operation to get to the right number

shift $1

echo $1