"set" question for Bourne shell scripts

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Wed Feb 20 13:35:52 AEST 1985


> Try 'unset *'. Should work.

Not only is "unset" only found in the latest Bourne shell,
but the suggestion does not work anyway.  The wildcard "*"
expands to a list of filenames; unless that happens to
include all the set arguments (which it might, depending
on the application) that is not what is desired.



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