Passing Arguments | Shell Scripting

This is a multipart blog article series where I am going to explain the concepts of shell scripting and how to write a shell script in Linux, UNIX or Mac based systems. You can also follow this tutorial blog using windows but for that you have to install a bash from.

In this article we will see that how can you pass the arguments at the time of executing the any file.

Passing arguments

• We can pass arguments to a script when we are executing it.
• To do so we have to write this command echo $1 $2 $3.
• When we run the script at that time we can give three input and they we will be printed on the screen.
• If we want to print the name of the file (shell file), then we can do in this way echo $0 $1 $2 $3, again we can pass three variables, but in this case name of the file will also be shown because the name of the file get stored in the 0^th variable.
• Another way do to the same thing is by using the default variable $@, in this way <array_name>=(“$@”)
• We have to declare a array which will store the argument, and then we can print it in the same way we print an array on the screen just like this echo ${<array_name>[0]} ${<array-name>[1]}
• If we want to print all the arguments then we can do it by writing this command echo $@
• If we want to find the number of arguments passed then we can simply use this command echo $# this will print the total number of arguments passed.

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