This latter usage is faster, does not contaminate the shell's variable namespace with what amounts to temp variables, can often be a lot more readable for humans and encourages the …

Shell scripting: -z and -n options with if Ask Question Asked 11 years, 10 months ago Modified 9 months ago

The shell command and any arguments to that command appear as numbered shell variables: $0 has the string value of the command itself, something like script, ./script, /home/user/bin/script …

Difference between $ {} and $ () in a shell script Ask Question Asked 10 years, 4 months ago Modified 9 months ago

Is there any easy way to pass (receive) named parameters to a shell script? For example, my_script -p_out '/some/path' -arg_1 '5' And inside my_script.sh receive them as: # I believe …

Jul 5, 2018 · -1 This answer is very misleading, following on from the question’s misleading title. -f has nothing to do with if; it is an option for the [ command, which just happens to be called …

Feb 17, 2020 · I am running a script in a loop which creates some data as per some logic and then displays output in some combination but the output I am getting is in new line Roll …

The question doesn't mention bash, and in fact deliberately only mentions shell script, both in the tags, and in the question. This answer would fail in a POSIX environment.

What does $# mean in shell? I have code such as if [ $# -eq 0 ] then I want to understand what $# means, but Google search is very bad for searching these kinds of things.

I'm learning Shell scripting for a diploma in IT I'm currently doing. I'm trying to write a small script that adds two numbers as shown as in one of the tutorials we were given. echo "Enter two nu...