How do I use a variable argument number in a bash script?

Question

#!/bin/bash
# Script to output the total size of requested filetype recursively

# Error out if no file types were provided
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then 
  echo \"Syntax Err         


        

Answer 1

if you don't want to include the first one, the way to do that is to use shift. Or you can try this. imagine variable s is your arguments passed in.

$ s="one two three"
$ echo ${s#* }
two three

Of course, this assume you won't be passing in strings that is one word by itself.