Command line parameters?

[James Cass]

Kevin -

The environment variable you're looking for is:  $#
For example, if I had this little shell script called "args.sh"

	#!/bin/sh
	echo Number of arguments passed is $#
	for arg in "$@"
	do
   	  echo $arg
	done

and passed it this:
	args.sh 1 2 3 4 5

it would return this:

	Number of arguments passed is 8
	1
	2
	3
	4
	5

Hope this helps....James


On Mar 11, 2004, at 2:14 AM, Kevin wrote:

>
>
> I am unable to locate a construct that would provide the number of 
> parameters that have been passed via the command line.  I am aware of 
> $0 ... $n but how does one know how many there are a how would I loop 
> through them?
>
> Kevin
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