Dec 22, 2010 · Furthermore, you also have || which is the logical or, and also ; which is just a separator which doesn't care what happend to the command before.

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 …

Take a look at the Bash man page. This notation is part of what's called a here documents & here strings. It allows you the ability to generate multi-line data input as one continuous string. The …

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 …

Oct 23, 2014 · Bash, and the sh command, is installed with Git4Windows if you select the 'Install Bash' install option.

@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 …

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 …

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?

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 …

Jul 17, 2013 · It doesn't mean anything "in bash". [ runs a command called test. -ne is an argument to the test command, not to bash, and you can find its documentation in man test.