Feb 20, 2011 · When going through one shell script, I saw the term "$?". What is the significance of this term?

Difference between $ {} and $ () in a shell script Ask Question Asked 10 years, 5 months ago Modified 10 months ago

Jan 16, 2014 · You can find a very nice reference for bash's [ aka test builtin's operators here, or by running help test in a bash shell or info bash test or info bash '[' from any shell¹. If you are …

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.

This has confused me a lot in trying to write shell script pipelines with different logic based on some test (e.g. exiting if a file doesn't exist vs continuing the pipeline).

Sep 6, 2017 · 169 Does any one have a template shell script for doing something with ls for a list of directory names and looping through each one and doing something? I'm planning to do ls …

Nov 28, 2019 · First of all, avoid doing text-parsing with shell loops. It is hard to do, easy to get wrong and very hard to read. And slow. Very, very, slow. Instead, use something like awk …

Shell script echo new line to file Ask Question Asked 14 years, 4 months ago Modified 12 years, 4 months ago

A shell assignment is a single word, with no space after the equal sign. So what you wrote assigns an empty value to thefile; furthermore, since the assignment is grouped with a …

0 To run the shell script from the windows. First use the command : dos2unix then you can use your normal command : sh runide.sh This will work out.