Process all arguments except the first one (in a bash script)

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Use this:

echo "${@:2}"

The following syntax:

echo "${*:2}"

would work as well, but is not recommended, because as @Gordon already explained, that using *, it runs all of the arguments together as a single argument with spaces, while @ preserves the breaks between them (even if some of the arguments themselves contain spaces). It doesn’t make the difference with echo, but it matters for many other commands.

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