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Re: detecting no arguments in $@


From: Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
Subject: Re: detecting no arguments in $@
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:11:14 +0200

On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 01:07:53PM +0200, dora-solomon@brusseler.com wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to figure out whether there are no arguments in $@ ?


If there are no positional parameters, i.e. if "$@" is empty, then "$#"
would be zero:

        if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
                echo 'there were no arguments given'
        fi


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Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
Uppsala University, Sweden

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