If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...

At a basic level, parameter expansion means changing Bash syntax into a value—expanding it. For example: echo "$foo" This ...

The bash man page is close to 40K words. It's not quite War and Peace, but it could hold its own in a rack of cheap novels. Given the size of bash's documentation, missing a useful feature is easy to ...

If you use bash you already know what Parameter Expansion is, although you may have used it without knowing its name. Anytime you use a dollar sign followed by a ...

Does anyone have an example of a script that takes parameters (so the user can specify the parameters in any order of their choosing)?<BR><BR>E.g.:<BR><BR>myscript -u username -p password -c ...