Sep 14, 2012 · In Bash, there appear to be several variables which hold special, consistently-meaning values. For instance, ./myprogram &; echo $! will return the PID of the process …

Oct 27, 2021 · $ command one && command two the intent is to execute the command that follows the && only if the first command is successful. This is idiomatic of Posix shells, and not …

Bash variables are so is equivalent to or -- All True. The forces integer comparison. The is interpreted as a integer ; the comparison is True if the other integer is either or the string result …

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 …

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 …

Is there any comprehensive list of characters that need to be escaped in Bash? Can it be checked just with sed? In particular, I was checking whether % needs to be escaped or not. I tried echo …

Oct 4, 2008 · 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?

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 …

Aug 7, 2013 · What does -z mean in Bash? [duplicate] Asked 11 years, 11 months ago Modified 1 year, 1 month ago Viewed 491k times

Oct 23, 2014 · Bash, and the sh command, is installed with Git4Windows if you select the 'Install Bash' install option.