If not quoted, it is a pattern match! (From the Bash man page: "Any part of the pattern may be quoted to force it to be matched as a string."). Here in Bash, the two statements yielding "yes" are pattern …

Oct 10, 2010 · I reckon that the handle $@ in a shell script is an array of all arguments given to the script. Is this true? I ask because I normally use search engines to gather information, but I can't …

Feb 10, 2010 · Bash always seemed backward with numeric evaluations using an operator consisting of a string (-eq) and string comparisons using a numeric operator "==" or "=" just you mess you up. If …

The switches -a and -n are not strictly part of a bash if statement in that the if command does not process these switches. What are primaries? I call them "switches", but the bash documentation that …

155 Quoting from man bash: -c string If the -c option is present, then commands are read from string. If there are arguments after the string, they are assigned to the positional parameters, starting with $0.

When writing shell programs, we often use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I usually use bash, but I don't know what's the difference between them. What's the main difference between Bash and sh? What do we ...

Feb 9, 2016 · A bash function has no line numbers related to the FILE that contains the definition. NOW: The code is stored somewhere internally in the running instance of Bash - does it REALLY require a …

Mar 10, 2016 · Using Bash's own regex-matching operator, =~, is a faster alternative in this case, given that you're only matching a single value already stored in a variable:

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?

@dutCh's answer shows that bash does have something similar to the "ternary operator" however in bash this is called the "conditional operator" expr?expr:expr (see man bash goto section "Arithmetic …