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arg1 = "first_argument"
arg2 = "second_argument"
arg3 = "third_argument"
arg4 = "fourth argument has spaces"
args = [arg1,
        arg2,
        arg3,
        arg4,        
       ]


    

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# Probably the Right Way(tm)
!echo {arg3}


    

    




third_argument

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!echo $arg4


    

    




fourth argument has spaces

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# Probably safer than above
!echo "$arg2"


    

    




second_argument

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# Can do python operations within the curly braces
for i in range(3):
    !echo {i+1}

!echo

!echo "Split the string:" {arg3.split('_')[-1]} {args[2]}

print("")


    

    




1
2
3

Split the string: argument third_argument

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%%bash -s "$arg1" "$arg2" {arg3}
echo "This bash script knows about $1 and $2 and $3."


    

    




This bash script knows about first_argument and second_argument and third_argument.

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year_htmls = !ls 2???.html


    

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year_htmls


    

    
Out[8]:





['2005.html',
 '2006.html',
 '2007.html',
 '2008.html',
 '2009.html',
 '2010.html',
 '2011.html',
 '2012.html',
 '2013.html',
 '2014.html',
 '2015.html',
 '2016.html']

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type(year_htmls)


    

    
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IPython.utils.text.SList

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[int(x.split('.')[0]) for x in year_htmls]


    

    
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[2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016]

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