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 …

529 = and == are for string comparisons -eq is for numeric comparisons -eq is in the same family as -lt, -le, -gt, -ge, and -ne == is specific to bash (not present in sh (Bourne shell), ...). Using …

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 …

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 …

Feb 10, 2010 · How do I compare a variable to a string (and do something if they match)?

bash shell scripting control-flow Improve this question edited Nov 16, 2011 at 22:16 Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

Aug 1, 2020 · I just typed bash in Ubuntu's terminal and, it was like normal. But after that, I had to type exit twice. What is bash command in bash?

Jan 30, 2017 · #!/bin/bash # To focus exclusively on the performance of each type of increment # statement, we should exclude bash performing while loops from the # performance measure.

How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directo...