How to get the nth positional argument in bash?

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Use Bash’s indirection feature:

#!/bin/bash
n=3
echo ${!n}

Running that file:

$ ./ind apple banana cantaloupe dates

Produces:

cantaloupe

Edit:

You can also do array slicing:

echo ${@:$n:1}

but not array subscripts:

echo ${@[n]}  #  WON'T WORK

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