====== Bash: arguments ====== Access to parameters with variables ''$@'' or ''$*''. Both 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" "$2" ...'' * ''$*'' 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