Question

I want to create a shell script that will create a pre-formatted file and open it in vim.

Specifically, I want to create a script called newperl that will allow me to type newperl [filename] and generate a file (using cat, echo, >, etc.) that is pre-formatted with

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.014;

etc.

I know how to do all the formatting etc. My problem is passing the [filename] which I type in after newperl to the rest of the script as an argument. How do I do that?

Answer 1

The variable $1 will automatically contain the word/quoted string passed after the call to the script.