On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:45:25AM -0600, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > Can someone tell me how to determine how many parameters are passed to a > script when the script is called? > > For example a simple script called trythis: > #!/bin/bash > > Echo -e $0 > > And when you call the script: > trythis 1 2 3 4 5 > > I get the output > trythis > > What I want to see is that 5 parameters were passed to the script. > > Any suggestions? > > Steve Dawes > Phone: (403) 268-5527 > Email: SDawes at calgary.ca Try using '$#'. For example: echo $# Other special variables produced and used by bash include $? (last program exit error status), $$ (current process number), and $* (all of the command line parameters). There might be others that do not come to mind at this moment--see the bash man page for more info. HTH, and have a _great_ day! -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1)
