What is in Bash

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I reckon that the handle    in a shell script is an array of all arguments given to the script  Is this true    I ask because I normally use search engines to gather information  but I cant google for    and I have grown too custom to easily getting served everything

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Just from reading that i would have never understood that "$@" expands into a list of separate parameters. Whereas, "$*" is one parameter consisting of all the parameters added together.

If it still makes no sense do this.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/05/bash-shell-special-parameters/

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Yes  Please see the man page of bash   the first thing you go to   under Special Parameters     Special Parameters      The shell treats several parameters specially   These parameters may only be referenced  assignment to them is not allowed         Expands to the positional parameters  starting from one   When the expansion occurs within double quotes  it expands to a  single  word  with  the  value  of  each parameter separated by the first character of the IFS special variable   That is       is equivalent to   1c 2c      where c is the first character of the value of the IFS variable   If IFS is  unset   the  parameters are separated by spaces   If IFS is null  the parameters are joined without intervening separators         Expands  to  the  positional  parameters   starting  from  one   When the expansion occurs within double quotes  each parameter expands to a separate word   That is       is equivalent to   1    2       If the double-quoted expansion occurs within a word  the  expansion  of  the  first  parameter is joined with the beginning part of the original word  and the expansion of the last parameter is joined with the last part of the original word   When there are no positional parameters       and      expand  to nothing  i e   they are removed

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