In a sample shell script, the command was –
. <sourced_file.sh> $*
What does the $* mean?
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In a sample shell script, the command was – . <sourced_file.sh> $* What does
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In a sample shell script, the command was –
. <sourced_file.sh> $*
What does the $* mean?
Thanks.
$*expands to all of the arguments that were given to the script in which it appears, or to the current shell function if it appears inside a function.It’s usually incorrect usage though, because it breaks arguments that contain spaces into multiple arguments. More correct is
"$@"which preserves the original arguments even if they have spaces in them.