10-10-2014
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Originally Posted by
21laps
Hi,
I am new to Unix.
can you explain in brief with examples what is variable, what is argument and what is parameter?
Your question is too vague to sensibly answer. There's no "UNIX kind" of variable. UNIX has lots of things with lots of kinds of variables.
MadeInGermany's answer assumes you are asking about shell script, which is not a bad guess, but not 100% certain either.
If you mean in general, not any particular programming language, it's not a UNIX question at all.
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