Hi everyone,
What does @ mean in shell scripts?
Cheers,
Toktam
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Jump to PostThe @ command can be used for computations. For example, if you have shell variables $X and $Y, you can set a third variable $Z to their sum by
@Z = $X + $Y
that help at all?
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Serunson
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The @ command can be used for computations. For example, if you have shell variables $X and $Y, you can set a third variable $Z to their sum by
@Z = $X + $Y
that help at all?
Toktam
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Thamks for that Serunson,
But I've seen $@ in some shell scripts,what does this mean?
Cheers
Infarction
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$@ is all of the parameters passed to the script. For instance, if you call ./someScript.sh foo bar $@ will be equal to foo bar . I have never seen the context Serunson described (actually, I got an error trying to use it...)
jbennet
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dont listen to serunson. he has never used linux in his life (i know, hes my friend) he just tries to help by using google etc
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