Re: Passing the entire command line

[James Mohr <linux-newbie@jimmo.com>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Luchjenbroers" <Adam@Luchjenbroers.com>
> To: <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:05 PM
> Subject: Passing the entire command line
>
> > While bash can retrieve the different commandline values using the
>
> variables
>
> > $1, $2, $3, etc - is there a way to just read out them all at once (with
> > spaces between the values).
> >
> > I use startup scripts for many of my games, and I want the script to pass
> > through command line options at the end (for connecting to servers, etc).

The special variable $* (dollar-sign asterisk) contains ALL of the positional 
parameters, regardless of how many they are. This is obiviously useful when 
you do not know how many variables will be passed. The variable $0 stands for 
the actual command. More details can be found here:

http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?33&0&0&0&3

Regards,

jimmo

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