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Old 01-24-2006
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An example to help you understand better.

$# - Will give you the number of arguments passed to the script
$@ - Will list all the arguments passed


Code:
/export/home/test/mons/UnixForum>cat test.sh
#!/bin/ksh
print "The number of arguments passed to this shell script is " $#

print "The arguments passed are as follows"
print "$@"


Code:
/export/home/test/mons/UnixForum>test.sh hai welcome to unixforum .com
The number of arguments passed to this shell script is  5
The arguments passed are as follows
hai welcome to unixforum .com