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Date: Thu,  8 Mar 2007 03:41:42 -0500
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?
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> shift in rc only shifts the command line argument ($*).
> How can I shift other variable in rc?
> I would like to do something like this:
>
>         a=(a b c)
>         shift a 2
>         echo $a
>
> and the echo should yield "b c".

It's clumsy but it works:

a=(a b c);
*=$a { shift; shift; a=($*) }

Russ