• it can be useful to fill in the blanks at runtime
  • $1 $2 $3, etc are all positional variables
  • consider this:
    • #!/bin/bash
echo Mary had a little $1 its fleece was white as $2
  • $0 is the name of the script itself, all others are positional...e.g. $8 is the 8th argument
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