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.

529 = and == are for string comparisons -eq is for numeric comparisons -eq is in the same family as -lt, -le, -gt, -ge, and -ne == is specific to bash (not present in sh (Bourne shell), ...). Using …

Take a look at the Bash man page. This notation is part of what's called a here documents & here strings. It allows you the ability to generate multi-line data input as one continuous string. The …

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 …

Feb 10, 2010 · How do I compare a variable to a string (and do something if they match)?

bash shell scripting control-flow Improve this question edited Nov 16, 2011 at 22:16 Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

Jul 17, 2013 · It doesn't mean anything "in bash". [ runs a command called test. -ne is an argument to the test command, not to bash, and you can find its documentation in man test.

Mar 27, 2015 · 7 The Bash man page's section about read states that, by default... The backslash character (\) may be used to remove any special meaning for the next character read and for …

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 …

Jan 30, 2017 · #!/bin/bash # To focus exclusively on the performance of each type of increment # statement, we should exclude bash performing while loops from the # performance measure.