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What is $*?

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Last Update: December 30, 2008

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Submitted by: Muthu

Will display all the commandline arguments that are passed to the script

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jlanese1

June 02, 2005 07:19:08

Muthu

RE: What is $*?

Will display all the commandline arguments that are passed to the script

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July 05, 2005 00:55:55

abhay

RE: What is $*?

Its mainly used for showing up all params.
i.e - if you execute script in following way to which we are trying to pass 4 params
./test.sh 1 hello world 2 test
and if we print inside script
echo $*
it will print
null1 hello world 2 testnull

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July 27, 2005 16:01:48

akebno

RE: What is $*?

$1: the 1st parameter
$2: the 2nd parameter
...
$*
All parameters in the command line

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July 29, 2005 08:10:55

Raj

RE: What is $*?

Yes $* displays values of all positional parameters set

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May 22, 2008 05:45:45

poornimay

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 7

RE: What is $*?

it is a questional parameter

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December 30, 2008 02:32:44

vidyamurali2003

Member Since: December 2008 Contribution: 9

RE: What is $*?

It contains the actual arguments passed to a shell script

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