Apr 3, 2012 · What does a dollar sign followed by an at-sign (@) mean in a shell script? For example: umbrella_corp_options $@

I'm trying to learn shell scripting, and I need to understand someone else's code. What is the $? variable hold? I can't Google search the answer because they block punctuation characters.

$(command) is “command substitution”. As you seem to understand, it runs the command, captures its output, and inserts that into the command line that contains the $(…); e.g., $ ls -ld …

Feb 20, 2011 · When going through one shell script, I saw the term "$?". What is the significance of this term?

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What does $# mean in shell? I have code such as if [ $# -eq 0 ] then I want to understand what $# means, but Google search is very bad for searching these kinds of things.

What can you do with the eval command? Why is it useful? Is it some kind of a built-in function in bash? There is no man page for it..

BTW, in bash a semi-colon is a statement separator, not a statement terminator, which is a new-line. So if you only have one statement on a line then the ; at end-of-line are superfluous. Not …

Jul 12, 2010 · What is the purpose of a command that does nothing, being little more than a comment leader, but is actually a shell builtin in and of itself? It's slower than inserting a …

Dec 14, 2012 · That is called a shebang, it tells the shell what program to interpret the script with, when executed. In your example, the script is to be interpreted and run by the bash shell. …