Why do bash command line arguments after 9 require curly brackets?
问题 This may not be the most thought provoking question, but nevertheless has struck my curiosity. I have not been able to come across any answer (let alone a definitive one) on the web. While reading Advanced Shell Scripting, I came across this section regarding command line positional arguments which states that anything after the the ninth argument must be surrounded by ${} (the longer form of variable referencing/substitution). Simply put, why must you reference command line argument ten (and