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 the …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 pages) long.

Oct 10, 2010 · I reckon that the handle $@ in a shell script is an array of all arguments given to the script. Is this true? I ask because I normally use search engines to gather information, but I can't …

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 …

123 I have as bash shell script with header #!/bin/bash -e. When I run the script, it will be interrupted after the grep command runs, but when I remove the parameter -e, then the script can be run …

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 you mess you up. If …

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 …