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authorDivay Prakash <divayprakash@users.noreply.github.com>2018-10-24 11:30:23 +0530
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-24 11:30:23 +0530
commitadfd3064e52e769dc46f62d8302be7e28be4e48d (patch)
tree204d82adc9f82ae4fe377b631a1406b97eb6b11d /bash.html.markdown
parent92022da0a6ea9417521563de9e537f337c426465 (diff)
parent8f5a67190705c9a3101653901d8f8a7b48eb1775 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into MarkdownFRChanges
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Nearly all examples below can be a part of a shell script or executed directly i
[Read more here.](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html)
```bash
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
# First line of the script is shebang which tells the system how to execute
# the script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
# As you already figured, comments start with #. Shebang is also a comment.
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ echo ${Variable/Some/A} # => A string
# Substring from a variable
Length=7
-echo ${Variable:0:Length} # => Some st
-# This will return only the first 7 characters of the value
+echo ${Variable:0:$Length} # => Some st
+# This will return 7 characters of the string, starting from the first char
# Default value for variable
echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"}
@@ -228,10 +228,13 @@ mv s0urc3.txt dst.txt # sorry, l33t hackers...
# Since bash works in the context of a current directory, you might want to
# run your command in some other directory. We have cd for changing location:
cd ~ # change to home directory
+cd # also goes to home directory
cd .. # go up one directory
# (^^say, from /home/username/Downloads to /home/username)
cd /home/username/Documents # change to specified directory
cd ~/Documents/.. # still in home directory..isn't it??
+cd - # change to last directory
+# => /home/username/Documents
# Use subshells to work across directories
(echo "First, I'm here: $PWD") && (cd someDir; echo "Then, I'm here: $PWD")
@@ -256,6 +259,7 @@ print("#stderr", file=sys.stderr)
for line in sys.stdin:
print(line, file=sys.stdout)
EOF
+# Variables will be expanded if the first "EOF" is not quoted
# Run the hello.py Python script with various stdin, stdout, and
# stderr redirections: