Iterating Over Arguments in Bash

Arguments can be accessed using $@. In contrast to $*, $@ correctly parses quoted arguments. Given the following script name args.sh:

for var in "$@"
do
  echo "$var"
done

Running this script with the following arguments yields:

sh args.sh a b "c d"
a
b
c d

Pretty useful for scraping stuff, creating conditional directories, renaming files, etc…