Question

I would like to pass all script arguments to the foo function, and if the first argument is something, pass all the rest arguments to the bar function.

I implemented this like that:

foo() {
  if [ "$1" = 'something' ]; then
    args=("$@")
    unset args[0]
    bar $args
  fi
}

foo $@

Is that possible to simplify this?

Answer 1

Yes, use shift

foo(){ 
  if [[ $1 == 'something' ]]; then
    shift
    bar "$@" 
  fi
}

foo "$@"