"set" question for Bourne shell scripts

[Gary M. Samuelson]

> The Bourne shell allows you to set the positional parameters with:
> 	set a b c d e
> 	$# yields 5
> regardless of the parameters given to the shell script on the command line.
> 
> Now, my question is, how do you remove all parameters, i.e. set $# to 0?

Try: set x; shift

'set x' creates a list of one parameter, x, then 'shift' deletes
that one parameter.

Gary Samuelson