Scripts are far more useful when they accept input on the command line, like normal commands do. When you run ./adduser.sh harry 2001, the words after the script name are its arguments, also called positional parameters, and Bash makes them available through special variables. Exam tasks frequently specify exactly how a script should respond to its arguments, including what to do when they are missing.
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