Passing arguments to shell script
We can pass the parameters (arguments) to shell script delimited by white spaces. You can access the current script name and arguments using $0, $1,$2….and so on.
$0 = Script name (also called as base name of file)
$1 = First argument to the script
$2 = Second argument to the script and so on..
In the script, we can access count of arguments using $#
if [ $# < 2 ]
then
echo “Count of parameters is less than 2”
exit -1
fi
We can use below special variables to access the parameters.
- [email protected] – All of the arguments.
- $* – All of the arguments. This does not preserve the white space and quotes.
Another variables that start with $ are given below.
- $$ – This gives you the process id of current shell.
- $! – This gives you the process id of last background process.
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