a bash scripting question

[Igor Gueths]

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I also recall in a Howto that I looked at a statement to the effect that
bash variables were typeless. That's esentially what Damien pointed out.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Michael Damien Curran wrote:

> Hi,
> Simply just use the variables $1 and $2.
> In bash there is no difference between integers and strings.
> Just for interest sake, $0 is the file name of the script ... how it was
> called.
> e.g.
> AddTwoNumbers 3 4
> $0 has a value of "AddTwoNumbers"
> $1 contains 3
> and $2 contains 4
> Hope this helps
> Mick
>
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:24:32PM -0500, 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
> >
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