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 …

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" …

Oct 27, 2021 · As far as I know, using & after the command is for running it in the background. Example of & usage: tar -czf file.tar.gz dirname & But how about …

The [[ ]] is treated specially by bash; consider that an augmented version of [ ] construct: [ ] is actually a shell built-in command, which, can actually be implemented as an external …

Apr 3, 2012 · (View Special parameters - Bash Manual) For instance, if you call ./someScript.sh foo bar then $@ will be equal to foo bar. If you do:./someScript.sh foo bar and then inside …

In bash, && and || have equal precendence and associate to the left. See Section 3.2.3 in the manual for details. So, your example is parsed as $ (echo this || echo that) && echo other And …

Aug 1, 2019 · In Bash, when you hit enter, a fork + exec + wait happens like above, and bash then sets $? to the exit status of the forked process. Note: for built-in commands like echo, a …

Sep 27, 2015 · In bash these are implemented via temp files, usually in the form /tmp/sh-thd.<random string>, while in dash they are implemented as anonymous pipes. This can be …

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 …

This is not the case with Bash, however, in which both operators have the same precedence, which is why Bash parses your expression using the left-associativity rule. Thanks to Kevin's …