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There is an existing bash script I need to modify, but I want to encapsulate the changes required to it in a function without affect how it manipulates the '$@' variable.
My idea is to copy the argument string to a new variable and extract the arguments required separately, but it seems that applying the 'shift' operates only on the $@ variable and modifies it permanently.
Is there way to emulate the processing of the $@ variable and its related functions on a normal string?
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Bash scripts take in command-line arguments as inputs both sequentially and also, parsed as options. The command-line utilities use these arguments to conditionally trigger functions in a Bash script or selectively choose between environments to execute the script.
You can pass more than one argument to your bash script. In general, here is the syntax of passing multiple arguments to any bash script: script.sh arg1 arg2 arg3 … The second argument will be referenced by the $2 variable, the third argument is referenced by $3 , .. etc.
You can preserve the $@ into a BASH array:
args=("$@")
And construct/retrieve/process original arguments anytime from BASH array "${args[@]}"
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