Oct 27, 2021 · Furthermore, you also have || which is the logical or, and also ; which is just a separator which doesn't care what happend to the command before.

If not quoted, it is a pattern match! (From the Bash man page: "Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force it to be matched as a string."). Here in Bash, the two statements yielding "yes" …

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Jan 27, 2017 · I realize you said “read the bash man pages” but at first, I thought you meant read the man pages within bash. At any rate, man bash returns a huge file, which is 4139 lines (72 …

Feb 10, 2010 · Bash always seemed backward with numeric evaluations using an operator consisting of a string (-eq) and string comparisons using a numeric operator "==" or "=" just …

The switches -a and -n are not strictly part of a bash if statement in that the if command does not process these switches. What are primaries? I call them "switches", but the bash …

When writing shell programs, we often use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I usually use bash, but I don't know what's the difference between them. What's the main difference between Bash and sh? …

Jan 14, 2010 · bash is one particular type of Linux shell (the Bourne again shell), but there are quite a few others. In Ubuntu, bash is the default. I am sure that there are numerous shell …

Feb 9, 2016 · A bash function has no line numbers related to the FILE that contains the definition. NOW: The code is stored somewhere internally in the running instance of Bash - does it …

Jun 10, 2012 · Then, I can make it a bash library, with unit tests and all, and import (source) it wherever needed, as I explain about bash libraries here: Detailed example: how do you write, …