Pass Arguments to a Shell Script

Description

The shell command and any arguments to that command appear as numbered shell variables. $0 has the string value of the command itself. Any arguments passed after the script appear as $1, $2, $3 and so on. The count of arguments is in the shell variable $#.^{[1] [2]}

Example

Execute a script from the CLI followed by an argument,

$ ./script.sh <argument1> <argument2> <argument2>

Sample contents of script.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
example-command $1 $2 $3

In this example $1 would have the value of the first argument given at the command line during script execution.

---

1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31414/how-can-i-pass-a-command-line-argument-into-a-shell-script ↩︎

2. https://www.learnshell.org/en/Passing_Arguments_to_the_Script#:~:text=Arguments can be passed to,references to the current script. ↩︎