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- bash - What are the special dollar sign shell variables . . . - Stack . . .
In Bash, there appear to be several variables which hold special, consistently-meaning values For instance, myprogram amp;; echo $! will return the PID of the process which backgrounded myprog
- bash - What is the purpose of in a shell command? - Stack Overflow
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
- bash - Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) - Stack Overflow
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" are pattern matching, other three are string equality:
- How do I iterate over a range of numbers defined by variables in Bash?
Related discusions: bash for loop: a range of numbers and unix stackexchange com - In bash, is it possible to use an integer variable in the loop control of a for loop?
- How to compare strings in Bash - Stack Overflow
How do I compare a variable to a string (and do something if they match)?
- What do the -n and -a options do in a bash if statement?
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 documentation that you linked to refers to the same thing as "primaries" (probably because this is a common term used when discussing parts of a boolean expression)
- What does set -e mean in a Bash script? - Stack Overflow
74 As per bash - The Set Builtin manual, if -e errexit is set, the shell exits immediately if a pipeline consisting of a single simple command, a list or a compound command returns a non-zero status
- What does the -e do in a bash shebang? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
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 parentheses, or one of the commands executed as part of a command list enclosed by braces (see SHELL GRAMMAR above) exits with a non-zero status The shell does not exit if the command that fails is part of the command
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