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 …

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" …

Jan 27, 2017 · I realize you said “read the bash man pages” but at first, I thought you meant read the man pages within bash. At any rate, man bash returns a huge file, which is 4139 lines (72 …

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 …

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 …

Feb 10, 2010 · Bash always seemed backward with numeric evaluations using an operator consisting of a string (-eq) and string comparisons using a numeric operator "==" or "=" just …

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 …

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.

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 …