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 …

Dec 22, 2010 · $ 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 untyped so [[ "yes" -eq "no" ]] is equivalent to [[ "yes" -eq 0 ]] or [[ "yes" -eq "any_noninteger_string" ]] -- All True. The -eq forces integer comparison.

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 …

Jan 18, 2017 · Bash scripting missing ']' [closed] Asked 12 years, 3 months ago Modified 5 years ago Viewed 196k times

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?

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 …

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 …

Dec 14, 2012 · 21 In bash script, what does #!/bin/bash at the 1st line mean ? In Linux system, we have shell which interprets our UNIX commands. Now there are a number of shell in Unix …

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