Question

Let’s say I have a Bash script called foo.sh.

I’d like to call it like this:

foo.sh Here is a bunch of stuff on the command-line

And I’d like it to store all of that text into a single variable and print it out.

So my output would be:

Here is a bunch of stuff on the command-line

How would I do this?

Answer 1

echo "$*"

would do what you want, namely printing out the entire command-line arguments, separated by a space (or, technically, whatever the value of $IFS is). If you wanted to store it into a variable, you could do

thevar="$*"

If that doesn’t answer your question well enough, I’m not sure what else to say…