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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use getopt in shell scripting Post 302334168 by rakeshawasthi on Wednesday 15th of July 2009 02:33:57 AM
Old 07-15-2009
$@ is the argument passed.
e.g.
cmd -a file -d database
$@ will contain "a file -d database"
 

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