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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple shell - how to get a parameter typed in a shell script Post 10083 by kapilv on Wednesday 7th of November 2001 12:49:16 PM
Old 11-07-2001
Hi

Inside a shell script you can read the arguments passed to your shell program by $1, $2, $3 .......
for e.g if your script file name is myscript and if you want to pass an argument to it like (myscript arg1) then inside myscript you can refer the arg1 by $1.

Hope this helps
Smilie
 

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