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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting decipher shell commands Post 302679479 by RudiC on Tuesday 31st of July 2012 04:31:03 AM
Old 07-31-2012
The $ sign expands (=replaces) parameters/variables to (with) their contents. 1, 2, ... are positional parameters, of which $# is the count; $? yields the exit code/status of your last command. Read the man page of your shell.
 

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