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I want to read in arguments from command line and store that in a variable. so I have a program call mycal, and it takes in many arguments: mycal jan - jun 2004 aug 1992 so I want to read in all those arguments, when it sees the dash '-', sets a flag, and store the previous argument "jan" and the next argument "jun" into the variable. I already have another script that translate jan to 1 and jun to 6, etc.. for example, the var MONTH would have { 1 2 3 4 5 6 } this is what I have so far: for m in $* do ARG=`name2num $m` echo $ARG if test $m = - then DASH=TRUE elif test $ARG != error && DASH == TRUE MONTH = "$MONTH $ARG" fi done Thanks.

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