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How to take the second parameter onwards in BASH

BASH Script File

In order to take pass the first parameter in BASH
for one item and then the second parameters onwards as something else,
this can be done in a BASH script as follows:

#!/bin/bash

first=$1
rest="${@:2}"
echo first - $first
echo rest - $rest

Once you have created a text file with the above lines,
please remember to make the file executable

Output

You can then execute/run the script

The output from running the above command

./script 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
first - 1
rest - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8