Bash Scripting 5 -- Arguments @tutoriaLinux

Uploaded February 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

How do arguments work in Bash scripting? How can my bash script accept input? Here's a quick video covering the basics of arguments in Bash scripting. Arguments are the data that you pass in when you call a script, like "scriptname argument1 argument 2".

In real life, this is something like 'tar zcf filename.tar.gz directory' ('zcf', 'filename.tar.gz', and 'directory' are the arguments in this example).

$# -- number of args that our script was run with
$0 -- the filename of our script
$1..$n -- script arguments

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