[Linux-Discussion] Re: what does the variable $1 mean in Bourne shell?
- From: Adrian Corbuleanu <acorbuleanu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:24:03 -0600
> I know what the variable $# means in Bourne shell
>
> what does $1 mean?
>
> thanks
> David
It's the first argument in the command line. I.e.:
You can do write a script called "myifconfig"
ifconfig eth0 $1 netmask $2
Then chmod u+x myifconfig and run
#./myifconfig 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
The last line will be equivalent to
#ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Regards,
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Adrian Corbuleanu
Astrocom Corp- Engineering
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