On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:30:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > That said, it is indeed logical to add spaces, and if so i don't understand > > why it didn't work previously. > > | shift $(($OPTIND-1)) > > Maybe more correct. Yes, but dash should actually support $((OPTIND-1)) also, see http://bugs.debian.org/329025 Regards, Gerrit.