Will return all of the positional parameters in a single string.

testscript.sh:

#!/bin/bash
echo "$*"

Run the script with several arguments:

./testscript.sh firstarg secondarg thirdarg

Output:

firstarg secondarg thirdarg

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Table Of Contents

1 Getting started

2 Using trap to react to signals and system events

3 Listing files

4 Aliasing

5 Jobs and processes

6 Redirection

7 Control structures

8 Using cat

9 Arrays

10 Functions

11 Bash Parameter Expansion

12 Sourcing

13 Find

14 Here documents and here strings

15 Quoting

16 Conditional Expressions

17 Scripting with parameters

18 History substitutions

19 Math

20 Scoping

21 Process substitution

22 Programmable completion

23 Customizing PS1

24 Brace Expansion

25 Bash Arithmetic

26 getopts smart positional-parameter parsing

27 Debugging

28 Pitfalls

29 Script shebang

30 Pattern matching and regular expressions

31 Keyboard shortcuts

32 Change shell

33 Copying with cp

34 Internal variables

35 Job control

36 Case statement

37 Word splitting

38 Read a file

39 File transfer with scp

40 Pipelines

41 Managing PATH environment variable

42 Avoiding date using printf

43 Chain of commands and operations

44 Type of shells

45 true, false and commands

46 Color script output cross-platform

47 Navigating directories

48 Using sort

49 Namespace

50 co-processes

51 Typing variables

52 Jobs at specific types

53 Associative arrays

54 Handling the system prompt

55 Creating directories

56 File execution sequence

57 The cut command

58 Bash on Windows 10

59 Cut command

60 Splitting files

61 Global and local variables

62 Design Patterns

63 CGI Scripts

64 Select keyword

65 When to use eval

66 Networking with bash

67 Parallel

68 Grep

69 Strace

70 Sleep

71 Decodi

72 Contributors