From: Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: counting shell args
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:53:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20021216124934.01c406e8@mustang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161545230.25857-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
At 12:47 PM 12/16/02, Mike Dresser wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Scott Taylor wrote:
>
> > I'm sure I've seen, probably even use it before, but I can't remember or
> > find it now; does anyone remember how to count the number of arguments sent
> > to a bash script?
>
>$#
>
>for example:
>
>if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
Man! That's been driving me nuts for like an hour now! Thanks. It's
still driving me nuts why I couldn't find it in man bash or man test though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-16 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-16 20:36 counting shell args Scott Taylor
2002-12-16 20:47 ` Mike Dresser
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161545230.25857-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-12-16 20:53 ` Scott Taylor [this message]
2002-12-16 20:57 ` Mike Dresser
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161555240.25857-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-12-16 21:05 ` Scott Taylor
2002-12-16 21:12 ` Mike Dresser
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161607130.25857-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-12-16 21:38 ` Scott Taylor
2002-12-16 21:49 ` Mike Dresser
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212161645140.3389-100000@router.windsormach ine.com>
2002-12-16 22:18 ` Scott Taylor
2002-12-17 15:15 ` Mike Dresser
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212171005410.13631-100000@router.windsormac hine.com>
2002-12-17 15:36 ` SysAdmin rants [was Re: counting shell args] Scott Taylor
2002-12-17 3:11 ` counting shell args dashielljt
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.50.0212162211130.217-100000@athame.gmpexpress.n et>
2002-12-17 15:38 ` Scott Taylor
2002-12-18 4:13 ` dashielljt
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2002-12-16 22:04 johnjulian1
2002-12-17 15:05 ` Mike Dresser
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