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

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If you want to have your arguments C style (array of arguments + number of arguments) you can use $@ and $#.

$# gives you the number of arguments.
$@ gives you all arguments. You can turn this into an array by args=("$@").

So for example:

args=("$@")
echo $# arguments passed
echo ${args[0]} ${args[1]} ${args[2]}

Note that here ${args[0]} actually is the 1st argument and not the name of your script.

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