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 …

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 …

All the bash command line switches are documented in man bash. -e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a subshell command enclosed in …

Aug 27, 2011 · I'm running Ubuntu 11.04. I use the terminal to start a bash session, and I want to add an environment variable:

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 …

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? …

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 …

In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty. Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?

Oct 23, 2014 · Bash, and the sh command, is installed with Git4Windows if you select the 'Install Bash' install option.