$n $1 the first parameter,$2 the second...
$# The number of command-line parameters.
$0 The name of current program.
$? Last command or function's return value.
$$ The program's PID.
$! Last program's PID.
$@ Save all the parameters.
almost any shell book will talk about them,from which you can get their detail usages.
Before we move on, there is a perversity about tests in Bash shells that I want to discuss. It turns out, because of a historical accident that now might as well be cast in concrete, when a test is conducted or a command returns a result value, the numerical value for "true" is 0, and "false" is 1. Those of you who have some programming experience will likely find this reversal of intuition as annoying as I do.
Here is a way to get the result of the most recent logical test (and to show the weird reversal described above):