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shift

Shell built-in command that shifts the arguments passed to the calling function or script by a specified number of places. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-shift.
  • Move arguments by one place dropping the first argument:
    shift
  • Move arguments by N places dropping the first N arguments:
    shift {{N}}

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