Positional parameters set

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Follwing is an example of positional parameters created by command line arguments being later replaced by others.

#!/bin/bash
#try calling this with several arguments
echo '$1=' $1
echo '$2=' $2
echo '$3=' $3
set `ls`
echo '$1=' $1
echo '$2=' $2
echo '$3=' $3

The first echo statements will print the command line arguments; but the second set will print the first three files in the current directory! The set command replace the positional parameters with the output of ls command.