How do you read arguments in a shell program - $1, $2 ..?
Answer Posted / seshadri sethi
Shell script accepts parameters in following format…
$1 would be the first command line argument, $2 the second,
and so on
$0 is the name of the script or function
If your script has more than 9 params then accept in
following way…
${12} : 12th param
${18} : 18th param
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