It depends on the Test Construct around the operator. Your options are double parentheses, double brackets, single brackets, or test. If you use ((…)), you are testing arithmetic equality …

Sep 27, 2015 · What's the difference between <<, <<< and < < in bash?Here document << is known as here-document structure. You let the program know what will be the ending text, and …

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 …

What are primaries? I call them "switches", but the bash documentation that you linked to refers to the same thing as "primaries" (probably because this is a common term used when discussing …

An "and" operator for an "if" statement in Bash Asked 12 years, 11 months ago Modified 1 year, 3 months ago Viewed 987k times

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

Feb 9, 2016 · The double-brace keyword is a bash expression, and will not work with other POSIX shells, but it has some benefits, as well, such as being able to do these kinds of operations …

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...

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, …

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 …