What is the operator =~ called? I'm not sure it has a name. The bash documentation just calls it the =~ operator. Is it only used to compare the right side against the left side? The right side is considered …

Oct 27, 2021 · 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.

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" are pattern …

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

When writing shell programs, we often use /bin/sh and /bin/bash. I usually use bash, but I don't know what's the difference between them. What's the main difference between Bash and sh? What do we ...

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?

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.

Aug 1, 2020 · I just typed bash in Ubuntu's terminal and, it was like normal. But after that, I had to type exit twice. What is bash command in bash?

Feb 9, 2016 · A bash function has no line numbers related to the FILE that contains the definition. NOW: The code is stored somewhere internally in the running instance of Bash - does it REALLY require a …

@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 "Arithmetic …