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What does $# stand for?

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Last Update: March 25, 2007

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Submitted by: cmanne

$# returns the number of parameters that are passed to a shell script
$? returns the exit code of the last executed command (0 : Successful, 1 or other: Failed)

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June 02, 2005 07:24:15

Muthu

RE: What does $# stand for?

$# will return the number of parameters that are passed as the command-line arguments.

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July 29, 2005 08:12:54

Raj

RE: What does $# stand for?

$# means number of positional parameters set

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June 15, 2006 11:45:12

Max

RE: What does $# stand for?

Print $#This will return the last command is run successfully or not.If it will return 0 then it ran successfully. And if it will return other then 0 thenThere is some problem

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August 10, 2006 07:25:30

Srinivas

RE: What does $# stand for?

I think it is $? not $# which returns the status of the last executed command

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March 25, 2007 20:08:27

cmanne

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RE: What does $# stand for?

$# returns the number of parameters that are passed to a shell script
$? returns the exit code of the last executed command (0 : Successful 1 or other: Failed)

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