dollar
<character> "$" Common names: ITU-T: dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol;
buck; cash; string; escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache;
INTERCAL: big money.
Well-known uses of the dollar symbol in computing include as a prefix on the
names of string variables in BASIC, shell and related languages like Perl. In
shell languages it is also used in positional parameters so "$1" is the first
parameter to a shell script, "$2" the second, etc.
(2006-09-10)
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