Programming and posix - February 2001

February 10, 2001
Solution Symposium
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programming
and posix
posix shell parameters
• $0 - name of the shell script
• $n where n=1..9 - the nth positional parameter
• $# - the number of positional parameters
• $@ - all positional parameters; if quoted, all positional
parameters as separate quoted arguments
• $* - all positional parameters; if quoted, all positional
parameters as a single quoted argument
• shift n - shift all positional parameters left by n
positions