Passing 10 arguments from pipeline to script

[Peter Spencer]

Passing 10 arguments to a bash script from the pipeline but only nine ever make it through. Any ideas are welcome, unable to find anything documented.

[Theodora Boudale]

Hi Peter and welcome to the community!

How are you referencing the 10th argument in your script?

You can use $1, $2, etc for arguments up to $9, but for arguments from 10 onwards you need to use curly braces.

For example, instead of

echo "The tenth argument is: $10"

you will need to use

echo "The tenth argument is: ${10}"

Otherwise, the shell will give you the first parameter followed by a zero. Is this what you see when you run this script?

If you are referencing this argument as ${10} and still see issues, can you please explain what do you see when you use for example

echo "The tenth argument is: ${10}"

Do you get no output at all for this parameter?

Kind regards,
Theodora