I'm writing a very simple script that will call another script and need to propagate parameters from the current script to the executing script.

For example, my script name is foo.sh and calls bar.sh

foo.sh:

bar $1 $2 $3 $4

How do I do this without explicitly specifying each parameter?

#1 building

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
  echo "Received: ${1}" && shift;
done;

Just thought it might be more useful when trying to test how args gets into the script

#2 building

My SUN Unix has many limitations, even "$@" can't be explained on demand. My solution is ${@}. For example,

#!/bin/ksh
find ./ -type f | xargs grep "${@}"

By the way, I have to have this particular script because my Unix doesn't support grep-r either

#3 building

For bash and other Bourne like shells:

java com.myserver.Program "$@"

#4 building

Works unless you have spaces or escape characters. In this case, I couldn't find a way to capture the parameters and send them to ssh within the script.

It may be useful, but it's ugly

_command_opts=$( echo "$@" | awk -F\- 'BEGIN { OFS=" -" } { for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) { gsub(/^[a-z] /,"&@",$i) ; gsub(/ $/,"",$i );gsub (/$/,"@",$i) }; print $0 }' | tr '@' \' )

#5 building

I know this question has been answered well, but it's a comparison between "$@" $@ "$*" and $*

Content of test script:

# cat ./test.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "================================="

echo "Quoted DOLLAR-AT"
for ARG in "$@"; do
    echo $ARG
done

echo "================================="

echo "NOT Quoted DOLLAR-AT"
for ARG in $@; do
    echo $ARG
done

echo "================================="

echo "Quoted DOLLAR-STAR"
for ARG in "$*"; do
    echo $ARG
done

echo "================================="

echo "NOT Quoted DOLLAR-STAR"
for ARG in $*; do
    echo $ARG
done

echo "================================="

Now, run the test script with various parameters:

# ./test.sh  "arg with space one" "arg2" arg3
=================================
Quoted DOLLAR-AT
arg with space one
arg2
arg3
=================================
NOT Quoted DOLLAR-AT
arg
with
space
one
arg2
arg3
=================================
Quoted DOLLAR-STAR
arg with space one arg2 arg3
=================================
NOT Quoted DOLLAR-STAR
arg
with
space
one
arg2
arg3
=================================