Friday, August 7, 2009

SHELL Script Variables

Variable Meaning
$0 Filename of script
$1 Positional parameter #1
$2 - $9 Positional parameters #2 - #9
${10} Positional parameter #10
$# Number of positional parameters
"$*" All the positional parameters (as a single word) *
"$@" All the positional parameters (as separate strings)
${#*} Number of command-line parameters passed to script
${#@} Number of command-line parameters passed to script
$? Return value
$$ Process ID (PID) of script
$- Flags passed to script (using set)
$_ Last argument of previous command
$! Process ID (PID) of last job run in background

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