Question

Every time shift command is used, the leftmost variable is lost.

(a) True

(b) False

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I need to ask this question from Shell Programming using Various Commands topic in chapter Essential Shell Programming of Unix

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) True

For explanation: shift statement is used for shifting the positional parameters to its immediate lower ones. Every time we use shift, the leftmost variable gets lost; s it should be saved in a variable before using shift.