Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) Asked 12 years, 1 month ago Modified 3 years, 7 months ago Viewed 651k times

Apr 3, 2012 · What does a dollar sign followed by an at-sign (@) mean in a shell script? For example: umbrella_corp_options $@

What does $# mean in shell? I have code such as if [ $# -eq 0 ] then I want to understand what $# means, but Google search is very bad for searching these kinds of things.

it seems < is for passing file (or directory), << @ for passing multiple lines (similar to the banner command in cisco switches; as terminated by a custom string @ in this case), and <<< to pass a …

Setting the shell argument to a true value causes subprocess to spawn an intermediate shell process, and tell it to run the command. In other words, using an intermediate shell means that variables, glob …

Here shell is an alias for bash. Chroma has something called Session. Pygments (doc) uses console, shell-session for bash sessions, pwsh-session, ps1con for power shell sessions and many other non …

$(command) is “command substitution”. As you seem to understand, it runs the command, captures its output, and inserts that into the command line that contains the $(…); e.g., $ ls -ld $(date +%B).txt …

Nov 29, 2025 · The shell is the program which actually processes commands and returns output. Most shells also manage foreground and background processes, command history and command line …

I'm trying to learn shell scripting, and I need to understand someone else's code. What is the $? variable hold? I can't Google search the answer because they block punctuation characters.

Sep 17, 2012 · Meaning of "=~" operator in shell script [duplicate] Asked 13 years, 4 months ago Modified 12 years, 5 months ago Viewed 96k times