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1 files changed, 32 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 11ce4e74..c9a805ba 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ contributors: - ["John Detter", "https://github.com/jdetter"] - ["Harry Mumford-Turner", "https://github.com/harrymt"] - ["Martin Nicholson", "https://github.com/mn113"] + - ["Mark Grimwood", "https://github.com/MarkGrimwood"] filename: LearnBash.sh translators: - ["Dimitri Kokkonis", "https://github.com/kokkonisd"] @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ echo ${array0[@]} # => "one two three four five six" echo ${#array0[@]} # => "6" # Print number of characters in third element echo ${#array0[2]} # => "5" -# Print 2 elements starting from forth +# Print 2 elements starting from fourth echo ${array0[@]:3:2} # => "four five" # Print all elements. Each of them on new line. for i in "${array0[@]}"; do @@ -178,6 +179,19 @@ echo "Always executed" && echo "Only executed if first command does NOT fail" # => Always executed # => Only executed if first command does NOT fail +# A single ampersand & after a command runs it in the background. A background command's +# output is printed to the terminal, but it cannot read from the input. +sleep 30 & +# List background jobs +jobs # => [1]+ Running sleep 30 & +# Bring the background job to the foreground +fg +# Ctrl-C to kill the process, or Ctrl-Z to pause it +# Resume a background process after it has been paused with Ctrl-Z +bg +# Kill job number 2 +kill %2 +# %1, %2, etc. can be used for fg and bg as well # To use && and || with if statements, you need multiple pairs of square brackets: if [ "$Name" == "Steve" ] && [ "$Age" -eq 15 ] @@ -220,7 +234,8 @@ ls -l # Lists every file and directory on a separate line ls -t # Sorts the directory contents by last-modified date (descending) ls -R # Recursively `ls` this directory and all of its subdirectories -# Results of the previous command can be passed to the next command as input. +# Results (stdout) of the previous command can be passed as input (stdin) to the next command +# using a pipe |. Commands chained in this way are called a "pipeline", and are run concurrently. # The `grep` command filters the input with provided patterns. # That's how we can list .txt files in the current directory: ls -l | grep "\.txt" @@ -260,7 +275,7 @@ 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 ~/Documents/.. # now in home directory (if ~/Documents exists) cd - # change to last directory # => /home/username/Documents @@ -275,9 +290,13 @@ mkdir -p myNewDir/with/intermediate/directories # if the intermediate directories didn't already exist, running the above # command without the `-p` flag would return an error -# You can redirect command input and output (stdin, stdout, and stderr). +# You can redirect command input and output (stdin, stdout, and stderr) +# using "redirection operators". Unlike a pipe, which passes output to a command, +# a redirection operator has a command's input come from a file or stream, or +# sends its output to a file or stream. + # Read from stdin until ^EOF$ and overwrite hello.py with the lines -# between "EOF": +# between "EOF" (which are called a "here document"): cat > hello.py << EOF #!/usr/bin/env python from __future__ import print_function @@ -299,6 +318,8 @@ python hello.py 2> "error.err" # redirect error output to error.err python hello.py > "output-and-error.log" 2>&1 # redirect both output and errors to output-and-error.log +# &1 means file descriptor 1 (stdout), so 2>&1 redirects stderr (2) to the current +# destination of stdout (1), which has been redirected to output-and-error.log. python hello.py > /dev/null 2>&1 # redirect all output and errors to the black hole, /dev/null, i.e., no output @@ -402,13 +423,17 @@ function foo () echo "Arguments work just like script arguments: $@" echo "And: $1 $2..." echo "This is a function" - return 0 + returnValue=0 # Variable values can be returned + return $returnValue } # Call the function `foo` with two arguments, arg1 and arg2: foo arg1 arg2 # => Arguments work just like script arguments: arg1 arg2 # => And: arg1 arg2... # => This is a function +# Return values can be obtained with $? +resultValue=$? +# More than 9 arguments are also possible by using braces, e.g. ${10}, ${11}, ... # or simply bar () @@ -429,7 +454,7 @@ tail -n 10 file.txt # prints first 10 lines of file.txt head -n 10 file.txt -# sort file.txt's lines +# print file.txt's lines in sorted order sort file.txt # report or omit repeated lines, with -d it reports them |