Special Shell Variables - Stack Pointer

As I always have a tendency to forget the special variables used in shell scripts, I am going to document down the variables here.

The variables are applicable for most of the shells (sh, bash, ksh, etc) if not all.

Name        Description
$0          The name of the script currently being executed

$1 - $9     Positional parameters or arguments passed to the shell script. 
            Each parameter corresponds to the position of the argument passed 
            to the script; $1 is the 1st argument, $2 is the 2nd argument.

$#          The number of positional arguments passed to the shell script

$?          Exit status of the last executed command

$$          Process ID of the shell being executed

$!          Process ID of the last command run in the background

$-          The set of options which were supplied to the shell at invocation

$*          Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one

$@          Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one


Note: Both $* and $@ will behave the same except when double quoting is used. 
$* takes the entire list as one argument with spaces in between and the $@ 
takes the entire list and separates it into different arguments.

Mohamed Ibrahim

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