Getting an arbitary item from a list

    This script gets the specified element form the list on the command line...

    
    #!/bin/bash
    
    
    
    # Select a specified item from a list. Copyright (c) Michael Still 2002
    
    # Released under the terms of the GNU GPL
    
    
    
    # $1 is the number to get, $* except for $1 is the list of options, delimited
    
    # by a space each
    
    
    
    # We can the shift operation to get to the right number
    
    shift $1
    
    echo $1
    
    


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