How to send a function all command line args?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have this code, I thought it would automatically know the args sent to script when called from shell. But it seems to not see any...

main script:

. args
. errors
. opt
. clean

dbfile=""
opfile=""

# calls function in script below
chkarg

#check commands

args:

#
chkarg()
{
    if [ $# -lt 4 ]
    then
        echo $USAGE
        exit 1
    fi

    ...
        ...
}

EDIT: args are not being sent to function, just tested echo statements throughout multiple lines of code. is it possible to call with $# ? I mean chkargs $# or something? or do I just need to put all my cmdline args checks into my main script?

2

you can check the no of args using functions..
only thing is write function defination abouve the function call....

3

Try:

chkarg "$@"