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How to access command line arguments of the caller inside a function?

Asked 2010-04-29T21:31:04.257
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I'm attempting to write a function in bash that will access the scripts command line arguments, but they are replaced with the positional arguments to the function. Is there any way for the function to access the command line arguments if they aren't passed in explicitly?

# Demo function
function stuff {
  echo $0 $*
}

# Echo's the name of the script, but no command line arguments
stuff

# Echo's everything I want, but trying to avoid
stuff $*
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#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo name of script is $0
echo first argument is $1
echo second argument is $2
echo seventeenth argument is $17
echo number of arguments is $#

Edit: please see my comment on question

answered 2010-04-29T21:33:02.387

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