Command line parameters?

[James Cass]

CORRECTION.....
> 	Number of arguments passed is 8
should have read
	Number of arguments passed is 5

Sorry 'bout that.  I tried a few tests of the script with various args 
and copy-pasted the wrong ones for my post example.
I better go back to bed...
-James


On Mar 11, 2004, at 3:35 AM, James Cass wrote:

> 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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