Hello, Any arguments provided on the command line are available via $1 $2 etc. Better put it in quotes when you access it though, just incase the argument is a quoted string with spaces. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Can someone please tell me how to write a bash script that would accept 2 > arguments from the command line, where the first argument would be an > integer like 1234567, and the second argument would be a text string? > I would then like to be able to access the variables inside the script > via $VAR1 and $VAR2. > > Thanks for any help. > > Greg > > >