bash - Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) - Stack Overflow
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 …
bash - Confusing use of && and - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
bash shell scripting control-flow Improve this question edited Nov 16, 2011 at 22:16 Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
What do the -n and -a options do in a bash if statement?
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 …
An "and" operator for an "if" statement in Bash - Stack Overflow
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 …
bash - What is indirect expansion? What does $ {!var*} mean?
Dec 15, 2011 · Bash uses the value of the variable formed from the rest of parameter as the name of the variable; this variable is then expanded and that value is used in the rest of the …
How to compare strings in Bash - Stack Overflow
Feb 10, 2010 · How do I compare a variable to a string (and do something if they match)?
Correctly formatting a PYTHONPATH in my .bash_profile
Jul 3, 2019 · Well.. .bash_profile is the place to configure any environment variable you want to have in your interactive shells.If this is what you want and your python programs are correctly …
What does 'set -e' mean in a Bash script? - Stack Overflow
74 As per bash - The Set Builtin manual, if -e / errexit is set, the shell exits immediately if a pipeline consisting of a single simple command, a list or a compound command returns a non …
How do I iterate over a range of numbers defined by variables in …
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?
How to increment a variable in bash? - Ask Ubuntu
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.