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.

Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) Asked 11 years, 7 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago Viewed 632k times

Dec 14, 2024 · Shell - "Shell" is a program, which facilitates the interaction between the user and the operating system (kernel). There are many shell implementations available, like sh, Bash, …

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..

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 …

Sep 30, 2010 · How to represent multiple conditions in a shell if statement? Asked 14 years, 9 months ago Modified 3 years, 5 months ago Viewed 1.2m times

$(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 …

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 …

Dec 22, 2010 · 180 command-line - what is the purpose of &&? In shell, when you see $ command one && command two the intent is to execute the command that follows the && only …