Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/shift, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: shift                        Command                        shift
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                      8: Shift positional parameters
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                     10: shift
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                     12: Commands to  the shell  sh can  be stored in  a file,  or script.
                     13: Positional parameters pass  command line information to a script,
                     14: as described in the article on sh.
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                     16: shift  changes  the values  of  positional  parameters.  The  old
                     17: parameter values $22, $33, ...  become the new parameter values $11,
                     18: $22 ....  shift also reduces the value of $#, which gives the num-
                     19: ber of positional parameters, by one.
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                     21: The shell executes shift directly.
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                     23: ***** See Also *****
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