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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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?

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.

How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directo...

When I use exit command in a shell script, the script will terminate the terminal (the prompt). Is there a way to terminate a script and then staying in the terminal? My script run.sh is expected to

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 9, 2009 · Instead, try printf, or perhaps regular echo with Bash's $'c-style' strings which support basically the same escapes (so \047 encodes an escaped literal single quote).