bash script more than $9 possible?

[packets]

Can bash script do this

./script.sh test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 test11 test12

#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
*)
echo $1 > /root/test1.txt
echo $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13 $14 $15 $16 $17 $18 $19 > /root/test2.txt
;;
esac

However, it could only output up to $9. I want to dump $1 to a file and the rest variables to a single file. I notice that it could only dump up to $9. The variable $2-19 is a sentence and I cannot put a quote just to make a sentence be a single variable.

Any workaround on this?

[Lakshmipathi]

shift command seems like perfect candidate for you. check this url Shift - reposition command line parameters

[deepinlife]

sorry i couldn't understand ur post from the beginning

args=("$@")
for((i=2;$i<=$#;i++))
 do
        echo ${args[$i]}
 done

this code if u don't want to make shift

[lomcevak]

For parameters beyond $9 enclosed the parameter no. in '{}'s

Parameter 10 - ${10}
.
.
Parameter 12 - ${12}

[KenJackson]

Let me chime in too!

#!/bin/bash
echo $1 > test1.txt
shift
echo $* > test2.txt

(I didn't test it, but I'm pretty sure it's right.)