Muthu

• Jun 2nd, 2005

 

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

abhay

• Jul 5th, 2005

 

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

akebno

• Jul 27th, 2005

 

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

Raj

• Jul 29th, 2005

 

Yes, $* displays values of all positional parameters set

poornimay

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• May 22nd, 2008

 

it is a questional parameter

vidyamurali2003

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• Dec 30th, 2008

 

It contains the actual arguments passed to a shell script

vijayanand86

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• Jan 20th, 2010

 

Contains the list of arguments passed to the function.