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" …

27 Ean 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 …

By default, Bash does not do this. This default behavior is exactly what you want if you are using Bash on the command line you don't want a typo to log you out! But in a script, you really want …

All the bash command line switches are documented in man bash. -e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a subshell command enclosed in …

In general, in bash and other shells, you escape special characters using \. So, when you use echo foo >\> what you are saying is "redirect to a file called > ", but that is because you are escaping …

27 MFómh 2015 · What's the difference between <<, <<< and < < in bash? Here document << is known as here-document structure. You let the program know what will be the ending text, and …

13 You can review Bash Beginners Guide for more information. These to do pretty much the same thing with the difference of how it's separated: $* - Expands to the positional parameters, …

10 Feabh 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 you …

Modern shells such as Bash and Zsh have inherited this construct from Ksh, but it is not part of the POSIX specification. If you're in an environment where you have to be strictly POSIX …

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 …