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

Aug 1, 2019 · What does echo $? mean in shell programming?true echo $? # echoes 0 false echo $? # echoes 1 From the manual: (acessible by calling man bash in your shell) ? Expands to …

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

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.

$(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 …

Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) Asked 12 years ago Modified 3 years, 6 months ago Viewed 649k times

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.

Jul 22, 2018 · In shell scripts, what is the difference between $@ and $*? Which one is the preferred way to get the script arguments? Are there differences between the different shell …

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 …

More precisely, a double dash (--) is used in most Bash built-in commands and many other commands to signify the end of command options, after which only positional ("non-option") …