From 01f1419dd7d0fba8735cbafb4cff871e52604b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Yankov <golergka@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 01:14:00 +0200
Subject: Bash: user input and expressions

---
 bash.html.markdown | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index ea0a28da..1ddacc33 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Nearly all examples below can be a part of a shell script or executed directly i
 # As you already figured, comments start with #. Shebang is also a comment.
 
 # Simple hello world example:
-echo 'Hello, world!'
+echo Hello, world!
 
 # Each command starts on a new line, or after semicolon:
 echo 'This is the first line'; echo 'This is the second line'
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ VARIABLE = "Some string" # Bash will decide that VARIABLE is a command he must e
 # Using the variable:
 echo $VARIABLE
 echo "$VARIABLE"
+# When you use the variable itself — assign it, export it, or else — you write it's name without $. If you want to use variable's value, you should use $.
+
+# Reading a value from input:
+echo "What's your name?"
+read NAME # Note that we didn't need to declare new variable
+echo Hello, $NAME!
 
 # We have the usual if structure:
 if true
@@ -41,4 +47,7 @@ else
 	echo "And is was not"
 fi
 
+# Expressions are denoted with the following format:
+echo $(( 10 + 5 ))
+
 ```
\ No newline at end of file
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