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authorLilian Besson <Naereen@users.noreply.github.com>2021-01-29 12:56:11 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-01-29 12:56:11 +0100
commitba2901a34291ef31cd49f5ccbd8c86d9b9c9bcd7 (patch)
tree228c56d939e67495d731d4d903047538063ff29c /bash.html.markdown
parente4d44a37712bfde3862b0afc59bff7e1594ef60e (diff)
[bash/en] Small updates
- I added https:// for the links, it's 2021, http:// is dead - fixed two comments which where `#text` => `# text` for consistency - added a link to `trash-cli` Python package which provides `trash` as a "safe" alternative to `rm` - add warning that `sed -i` erase (replace) the input file - add `...` around fgrep and grep -F, for consistency too
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 7ca4285b..11ce4e74 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on most Linux distros.
Nearly all examples below can be a part of a shell script
or executed directly in the shell.
-[Read more here.](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html)
+[Read more here.](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html)
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# First line of the script is the shebang which tells the system how to execute
-# the script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
+# the script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
# As you already figured, comments start with #. Shebang is also a comment.
# Simple hello world example:
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ then
fi
# Note that =~ only works within double [[ ]] square brackets,
# which are subtly different from single [ ].
-# See http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs for more on this.
+# See https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs for more on this.
# Redefine command `ping` as alias to send only 5 packets
alias ping='ping -c 5'
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ echo "#helloworld" | tee output.out >/dev/null
# WARNING: `rm` commands cannot be undone
rm -v output.out error.err output-and-error.log
rm -r tempDir/ # recursively delete
+# You can install the `trash-cli` Python package to have `trash`
+# which puts files in the system trash and doesn't delete them directly
+# see https://pypi.org/project/trash-cli/ if you want to be careful
# Commands can be substituted within other commands using $( ):
# The following command displays the number of files and directories in the
@@ -332,15 +335,15 @@ rm -r tempDir/ # recursively delete
echo "There are $(ls | wc -l) items here."
# The same can be done using backticks `` but they can't be nested -
-#the preferred way is to use $( ).
+# the preferred way is to use $( ).
echo "There are `ls | wc -l` items here."
# Bash uses a `case` statement that works similarly to switch in Java and C++:
case "$Variable" in
- #List patterns for the conditions you want to meet
+ # List patterns for the conditions you want to meet
0) echo "There is a zero.";;
1) echo "There is a one.";;
- *) echo "It is not null.";;
+ *) echo "It is not null.";; # match everything
esac
# `for` loops iterate for as many arguments given:
@@ -377,6 +380,13 @@ do
cat "$Output"
done
+# Bash can also accept patterns, like this to `cat`
+# all the Markdown files in current directory
+for Output in ./*.markdown
+do
+ cat "$Output"
+done
+
# while loop:
while [ true ]
do
@@ -431,6 +441,8 @@ cut -d ',' -f 1 file.txt
# replaces every occurrence of 'okay' with 'great' in file.txt
# (regex compatible)
sed -i 's/okay/great/g' file.txt
+# be aware that this -i flag means that file.txt will be changed
+# -i or --in-place erase the input file (use --in-place=.backup to keep a back-up)
# print to stdout all lines of file.txt which match some regex
# The example prints lines which begin with "foo" and end in "bar"
@@ -448,7 +460,7 @@ grep -rI "^foo.*bar$" someDir/ # recursively `grep`, but ignore binary files
grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt | grep -v "baz"
# if you literally want to search for the string,
-# and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F)
+# and not the regex, use `fgrep` (or `grep -F`)
fgrep "foobar" file.txt
# The `trap` command allows you to execute a command whenever your script
@@ -457,6 +469,7 @@ fgrep "foobar" file.txt
trap "rm $TEMP_FILE; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
# `sudo` is used to perform commands as the superuser
+# usually it will ask interactively the password of superuser
NAME1=$(whoami)
NAME2=$(sudo whoami)
echo "Was $NAME1, then became more powerful $NAME2"