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NermzA
NermzA

Reputation: 1

How to read multiple words as one argument

I am trying to write a shell script that takes the first word given to it as one argument and anything that comes after it as a second argument.

The user must call my shell script and provide their arguments in one line from the terminal: shellscript.sh word1 word2 word3 ...... wordn How can I write my script such that

arg1 = word1

arg2 = word2 - wordn?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2063

Answers (1)

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 242443

Use shift to remove the first argument, and use "$*" to concatenate the remaining ones.

#!/bin/bash
first=$1
shift
rest="$*"  # Assuming the first character of $IFS is a space.

printf '<%s>\n' "$first" "$rest"

Upvotes: 1

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