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Writing Deskshell commands

Function arguments

The special variable ``*'' holds the list of arguments to the current function. For example, in a drop_in_action: drop" script, the ``*'' variable will contain a list of the filenames of the icons that were dropped into the window.

The number of icons dropped is given by $#*. Each of the individual elements in ``*'' can be obtained with $*(1), $*(2), and so forth. For convenience, these can be abbreviated to $1, $2, and so forth.


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