How can I pass more than 10 arguments in windows batch file or linux shell script

Question

I need to pass more than 10 arguments to a single batch file (shell script) but after the 9th argument it will not work (it will take from beginning)

code sample

 echo Hello! This a sample batch file.
    echo %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 %10 %11 %12 %13 %14 %15 %16
    pause



>mybatchdotbat a b c d e f g h i j  k l m n o p

can anyone give solution for this

Answer 1

Basically, %10 is getting interpreted as %1 0.

To fix this, in either a batch file or a shell script, you can save the first argument in a variable, then use shift to decrement all remaining arguments by 1. When you call shift, %1 ($1 in a shell script) is now gone, the old %2 becomes %1, the old %3 becomes %2, etc. See this answer for more details.

In a shell script, you can also refer to the tenth argument using ${10}.