Re: [Help-bash] opposite of 'shift'

[Chet Ramey]

> If many
> users end up having to write up its own version of the function for
> the same purpose, why not adding to the language.

That's a reasonable position.  It's happened before.  In this case,
though, we don't have any evidence that "many users" are writing such
a function, and we have no backlog of requests to add it to the shell.

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