From 303de42a2c62193de9418ed5060ed5e99f26ba3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rholais Lii Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:06:21 +0800 Subject: [bash/en-us]Fix spelling (#2654) * Fix spelling * Remove the contributor tag --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 271ef62c..14366e4c 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ ls # These commands have options that control their execution: ls -l # Lists every file and directory on a separate line -ls -t # Sort the directory contents by last-modified date (descending) +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. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 96f62560ba5a7be6f2571656fa16f99446da87a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Miyake Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:09:39 -0700 Subject: [bash/en] Provide example outputs for #549 --- bash.html.markdown | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 14366e4c..76710aa8 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -30,59 +30,62 @@ 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! # => Hello world! # Each command starts on a new line, or after semicolon: echo 'This is the first line'; echo 'This is the second line' +# => This is the first line +# => This is the second line # Declaring a variable looks like this: Variable="Some string" # But not like this: -Variable = "Some string" +Variable = "Some string" # => returns error "Variable: command not found" # Bash will decide that Variable is a command it must execute and give an error # because it can't be found. # Or like this: -Variable= 'Some string' +Variable= 'Some string' # => returns error: "Some string: command not found" # Bash will decide that 'Some string' is a command it must execute and give an # error because it can't be found. (In this case the 'Variable=' part is seen # as a variable assignment valid only for the scope of the 'Some string' # command.) # Using the variable: -echo $Variable -echo "$Variable" -echo '$Variable' +echo $Variable # => Some string +echo "$Variable" # => Some string +echo '$Variable' # => Some string # When you use the variable itself — assign it, export it, or else — you write # its name without $. If you want to use the variable's value, you should use $. # Note that ' (single quote) won't expand the variables! # Parameter expansion ${ }: -echo ${Variable} +echo ${Variable} # => Some string # This is a simple usage of parameter expansion # Parameter Expansion gets a value from a variable. It "expands" or prints the value # During the expansion time the value or parameter are able to be modified # Below are other modifications that add onto this expansion # String substitution in variables -echo ${Variable/Some/A} +echo ${Variable/Some/A} # => A string # This will substitute the first occurrence of "Some" with "A" # Substring from a variable Length=7 -echo ${Variable:0:Length} +echo ${Variable:0:Length} # => Some st # This will return only the first 7 characters of the value # Default value for variable -echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} +echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} +# => DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty # This works for null (Foo=) and empty string (Foo=""); zero (Foo=0) returns 0. # Note that it only returns default value and doesn't change variable value. # Brace Expansion { } # Used to generate arbitrary strings -echo {1..10} -echo {a..z} +echo {1..10} # => 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 +echo {a..z} # => a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z # This will output the range from the start value to the end value # Builtin variables: @@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ then else echo "Your name is your username" fi +# True if the value of $Name is not equal to the current user's login username # NOTE: if $Name is empty, bash sees the above condition as: if [ != $USER ] @@ -133,7 +137,11 @@ if [ "" != $USER ] ... # There is also conditional execution echo "Always executed" || echo "Only executed if first command fails" +# => Always executed echo "Always executed" && echo "Only executed if first command does NOT fail" +# => Always executed +# => Only executed if first command does NOT fail + # To use && and || with if statements, you need multiple pairs of square brackets: if [ "$Name" == "Steve" ] && [ "$Age" -eq 15 ] @@ -147,12 +155,12 @@ then fi # Expressions are denoted with the following format: -echo $(( 10 + 5 )) +echo $(( 10 + 5 )) # => 15 # Unlike other programming languages, bash is a shell so it works in the context # of a current directory. You can list files and directories in the current # directory with the ls command: -ls +ls # Lists the files and subdirectories contained in the current directory # These commands have options that control their execution: ls -l # Lists every file and directory on a separate line @@ -169,7 +177,10 @@ cat file.txt # We can also read the file using `cat`: Contents=$(cat file.txt) -echo "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" +echo "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # "\n" prints a new line character +# => START OF FILE +# => [contents of file.txt] +# => END OF FILE # Use `cp` to copy files or directories from one place to another. # `cp` creates NEW versions of the sources, @@ -203,6 +214,8 @@ pwd # still in first directory mkdir myNewDir # The `-p` flag causes new intermediate directories to be created as necessary. 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). # Read from stdin until ^EOF$ and overwrite hello.py with the lines @@ -217,12 +230,15 @@ for line in sys.stdin: print(line, file=sys.stdout) EOF -# Run hello.py with various stdin, stdout, and stderr redirections: -python hello.py < "input.in" -python hello.py > "output.out" -python hello.py 2> "error.err" -python hello.py > "output-and-error.log" 2>&1 -python hello.py > /dev/null 2>&1 +# Run the hello.py Python script with various stdin, stdout, and +# stderr redirections: +python hello.py < "input.in" # pass input.in as input to the script +python hello.py > "output.out" # redirect output from the script to output.out +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 +python hello.py > /dev/null 2>&1 # redirect all output and errors to + # the black hole, /dev/null, i.e., no output # The output error will overwrite the file if it exists, # if you want to append instead, use ">>": python hello.py >> "output.out" 2>> "error.err" @@ -269,12 +285,19 @@ for Variable in {1..3} do echo "$Variable" done +# => 1 +# => 2 +# => 3 + # Or write it the "traditional for loop" way: for ((a=1; a <= 3; a++)) do echo $a done +# => 1 +# => 2 +# => 3 # They can also be used to act on files.. # This will run the command 'cat' on file1 and file2 @@ -296,6 +319,7 @@ do echo "loop body here..." break done +# => loop body here... # You can also define functions # Definition: @@ -306,6 +330,11 @@ function foo () echo "This is a function" return 0 } +# 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 # or simply bar () @@ -313,6 +342,8 @@ bar () echo "Another way to declare functions!" return 0 } +# Call the function `bar` with no arguments: +bar # => Another way to declare functions! # Calling your function foo "My name is" $Name @@ -320,25 +351,35 @@ foo "My name is" $Name # There are a lot of useful commands you should learn: # prints last 10 lines of file.txt tail -n 10 file.txt + # prints first 10 lines of file.txt head -n 10 file.txt + # sort file.txt's lines sort file.txt + # report or omit repeated lines, with -d it reports them uniq -d file.txt + # prints only the first column before the ',' character cut -d ',' -f 1 file.txt -# replaces every occurrence of 'okay' with 'great' in file.txt, (regex compatible) + +# replaces every occurrence of 'okay' with 'great' in file.txt +# (regex compatible) sed -i 's/okay/great/g' file.txt + # print to stdout all lines of file.txt which match some regex # The example prints lines which begin with "foo" and end in "bar" grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt + # pass the option "-c" to instead print the number of lines matching the regex grep -c "^foo.*bar$" file.txt + # Other useful options are: grep -r "^foo.*bar$" someDir/ # recursively `grep` grep -n "^foo.*bar$" file.txt # give line numbers grep -rI "^foo.*bar$" someDir/ # recursively `grep`, but ignore binary files + # perform the same initial search, but filter out the lines containing "baz" grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt | grep -v "baz" @@ -346,8 +387,9 @@ grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt | grep -v "baz" # and not the regex, use fgrep (or grep -F) fgrep "foobar" file.txt -# trap command allows you to execute a command when a signal is received by your script. -# Here trap command will execute rm if any one of the three listed signals is received. +# The trap command allows you to execute a command whenever your script +# receives a signal. Here, trap will execute `rm` if it receives any of the +# three listed signals. trap "rm $TEMP_FILE; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM # `sudo` is used to perform commands as the superuser -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4f86cfaa4433a739b1aa9828138da0f61c664bcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harry Mumford-Turner Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:10:53 +0100 Subject: [bash/en] Fixed formatting for The Black Hole - [x] I solemnly swear that this is all original content of which I am the original author - [x] Pull request title is prepended with `[language/lang-code]` - [x] Pull request touches only one file (or a set of logically related files with similar changes made) - [x] Content changes are aimed at *intermediate to experienced programmers* (this is a poor format for explaining fundamental programming concepts) - [x] If you've changed any part of the YAML Frontmatter, make sure it is formatted according to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.markdown) - [x] Yes, I have double-checked quotes and field names! --- bash.html.markdown | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 76710aa8..981d7a1e 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ contributors: - ["Leo Rudberg", "https://github.com/LOZORD"] - ["Betsy Lorton", "https://github.com/schbetsy"] - ["John Detter", "https://github.com/jdetter"] + - ["Harry Mumford-Turner", "https://github.com/harrymt"] filename: LearnBash.sh --- @@ -235,10 +236,8 @@ EOF python hello.py < "input.in" # pass input.in as input to the script python hello.py > "output.out" # redirect output from the script to output.out 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 -python hello.py > /dev/null 2>&1 # redirect all output and errors to - # the black hole, /dev/null, i.e., no output +python hello.py > "output-and-error.log" 2>&1 # redirect both output and errors 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 # The output error will overwrite the file if it exists, # if you want to append instead, use ">>": python hello.py >> "output.out" 2>> "error.err" -- cgit v1.2.3 From 027e152dda5f26e2aa74f6739c21f9ca3a8a4fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joyce Kung Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:10:32 -0400 Subject: Fixed line 59 - printing Using echo with ' ' means that the variable won't be expanded, so it should print the literal $Variable instead of some string. --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 981d7a1e..0c097c27 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Variable= 'Some string' # => returns error: "Some string: command not found" # Using the variable: echo $Variable # => Some string echo "$Variable" # => Some string -echo '$Variable' # => Some string +echo '$Variable' # => $Variable # When you use the variable itself — assign it, export it, or else — you write # its name without $. If you want to use the variable's value, you should use $. # Note that ' (single quote) won't expand the variables! -- cgit v1.2.3 From 2dda26010ab52ecd5d54c6fa1b8701288aaaac2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neinei0k Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:30:57 +0000 Subject: [bash/en] Add arrays and alias --- bash.html.markdown | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 0c097c27..3f3e49eb 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -83,6 +83,25 @@ echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} # This works for null (Foo=) and empty string (Foo=""); zero (Foo=0) returns 0. # Note that it only returns default value and doesn't change variable value. +# Declare an array with 6 elements +array0=(one two three four five six) +# Print first element +echo $array0 # => "one" +# Print first element +echo ${array0[0]} # => "one" +# Print all elements +echo ${array0[@]} # => "one two three four five six" +# Print number of elements +echo ${#array0[@]} # => "6" +# Print number of characters in third element +echo ${#array0[2]} # => "5" +# Print 2 elements starting from forth +echo ${array0[@]:3:2} # => "four five" +# Print all elements. Each of them on new line. +for i in "${array0[@]}"; do + echo "$i" +done + # Brace Expansion { } # Used to generate arbitrary strings echo {1..10} # => 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 @@ -155,6 +174,13 @@ then echo "This will run if $Name is Daniya OR Zach." fi +# Redefine command 'ping' as alias to send only 5 packets +alias ping='ping -c 5' +# Escape alias and use command with this name instead +\ping 192.168.1.1 +# Print all aliases +alias -p + # Expressions are denoted with the following format: echo $(( 10 + 5 )) # => 15 -- cgit v1.2.3 From f39df1da097f8718b375127ad04f2114c5c4e48d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Nicholson Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:27:30 +0000 Subject: Added second substring example --- bash.html.markdown | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 0c097c27..ed4fa54f 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ contributors: - ["Betsy Lorton", "https://github.com/schbetsy"] - ["John Detter", "https://github.com/jdetter"] - ["Harry Mumford-Turner", "https://github.com/harrymt"] + - ["Martin Nicholson", "https://github.com/mn113"] filename: LearnBash.sh --- @@ -76,6 +77,8 @@ echo ${Variable/Some/A} # => A string Length=7 echo ${Variable:0:Length} # => Some st # This will return only the first 7 characters of the value +echo ${Variable: -Length} +# This will return the last 7 characters (note the space before -Length) # Default value for variable echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} -- cgit v1.2.3 From 462f94b967d4814e57bb6836cfd9d13abd8f9ab7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Nicholson Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 15:31:32 +0000 Subject: Added string length example --- bash.html.markdown | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index ed4fa54f..fa3c5ebe 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -77,8 +77,11 @@ echo ${Variable/Some/A} # => A string Length=7 echo ${Variable:0:Length} # => Some st # This will return only the first 7 characters of the value -echo ${Variable: -Length} -# This will return the last 7 characters (note the space before -Length) +echo ${Variable: -5} # => tring +# This will return the last 5 characters (note the space before -5) + +# String length +echo ${#Variable} # => 11 # Default value for variable echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} -- cgit v1.2.3 From 8d2055483e8c0a8147414f4695a7cf3e5ede819e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Nicholson Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:03:13 +0000 Subject: Added section for =~ operator --- bash.html.markdown | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index fa3c5ebe..354042ec 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ then echo "This will run if $Name is Daniya OR Zach." fi +# There is also the =~ operator, which tests a string against a Regex pattern: +Email=me@example.com +if [[ "$Email" =~ [a-z]+@[a-z]{2,}\.(com|net|org) ]] +then + echo "Valid email!" +fi +# Note that =~ only works within double [[ ]] square brackets, +# which are subtly different from single [ ]. +# See the appropriate [manual section](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs) for more on this. + # Expressions are denoted with the following format: echo $(( 10 + 5 )) # => 15 -- cgit v1.2.3 From e2949649f054ca069e95a05b04d99bccc30ba45d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Nicholson Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:09:49 +0000 Subject: Un-markdown-ify link --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 354042ec..8f141673 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ then fi # Note that =~ only works within double [[ ]] square brackets, # which are subtly different from single [ ]. -# See the appropriate [manual section](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs) for more on this. +# See http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs for more on this. # Expressions are denoted with the following format: echo $(( 10 + 5 )) # => 15 -- cgit v1.2.3 From dbb858281a8c5948606ad3a07225915954a03953 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kfrncs Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:38:59 -0400 Subject: missing $ on line 77 - $Length MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Maybe just a zsh quirk? ➜ ~ echo ${Variable:0:Length} zsh: unrecognized modifier --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 3f3e49eb..d1e6bf25 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ echo ${Variable/Some/A} # => A string # Substring from a variable Length=7 -echo ${Variable:0:Length} # => Some st +echo ${Variable:0:$Length} # => Some st # This will return only the first 7 characters of the value # Default value for variable -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6f0aec01c577e44b1ea3260f786ef3527eebf204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aidas Bendoraitis Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:58:31 +0200 Subject: shebang updated --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 3f3e49eb..f2a72fdb 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 088111396a0dff9a5dff7837e1ae74aa9314b620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tucker Boniface Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:19:18 -0700 Subject: [bash/en] clarify quoted delimiter for heredocs (fixes #3061) --- bash.html.markdown | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index cb805da7..1f59636e 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ 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: -- cgit v1.2.3 From 843626f3d30a06cc1c8b342c155a5dc8af24fbd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tucker Boniface Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:23:45 -0700 Subject: [bash/en] add `cd` and `cd -` uses --- bash.html.markdown | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index cb805da7..e609260f 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -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") -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9152fe00e54b51ddebaeed9929a3027547cb16a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tucker Boniface Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 19:22:56 -0700 Subject: [bash/en] clarify range of substring --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index cb805da7..be879538 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ 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 +# This will return 7 characters of the string, starting from the first char # Default value for variable echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4a51a5f8797f906bd78b2b0cc2df2f01e496e7d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andre Polykanine Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:59:11 +0200 Subject: [bash/en] Fix line length --- bash.html.markdown | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 8c40931e..0385c46d 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -20,21 +20,23 @@ contributors: filename: LearnBash.sh --- -Bash is a name of the unix shell, which was also distributed as the shell for the GNU operating system and as default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. -Nearly all examples below can be a part of a shell script or executed directly in the shell. +Bash is a name of the unix shell, which was also distributed as the shell +for the GNU operating system and as default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. +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) ```bash #!/usr/bin/env bash -# First line of the script is shebang which tells the system how to execute +# First line of the script is the 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. # Simple hello world example: echo Hello world! # => Hello world! -# Each command starts on a new line, or after semicolon: +# Each command starts on a new line, or after a semicolon: echo 'This is the first line'; echo 'This is the second line' # => This is the first line # => This is the second line @@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ Variable = "Some string" # => returns error "Variable: command not found" # Bash will decide that Variable is a command it must execute and give an error # because it can't be found. -# Or like this: +# Nor like this: Variable= 'Some string' # => returns error: "Some string: command not found" # Bash will decide that 'Some string' is a command it must execute and give an # error because it can't be found. (In this case the 'Variable=' part is seen @@ -65,8 +67,9 @@ echo '$Variable' # => $Variable # Parameter expansion ${ }: echo ${Variable} # => Some string # This is a simple usage of parameter expansion -# Parameter Expansion gets a value from a variable. It "expands" or prints the value -# During the expansion time the value or parameter are able to be modified +# Parameter Expansion gets a value from a variable. +# It "expands" or prints the value +# During the expansion time the value or parameter can be modified # Below are other modifications that add onto this expansion # String substitution in variables @@ -114,8 +117,8 @@ echo {1..10} # => 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 echo {a..z} # => a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z # This will output the range from the start value to the end value -# Builtin variables: -# There are some useful builtin variables, like +# Built-in variables: +# There are some useful built-in variables, like echo "Last program's return value: $?" echo "Script's PID: $$" echo "Number of arguments passed to script: $#" @@ -127,7 +130,7 @@ echo "Script's arguments separated into different variables: $1 $2..." # Our current directory is available through the command `pwd`. # `pwd` stands for "print working directory". -# We can also use the builtin variable `$PWD`. +# We can also use the built-in variable `$PWD`. # Observe that the following are equivalent: echo "I'm in $(pwd)" # execs `pwd` and interpolates output echo "I'm in $PWD" # interpolates the variable @@ -143,7 +146,7 @@ read Name # Note that we didn't need to declare a new variable echo Hello, $Name! # We have the usual if structure: -# use 'man test' for more info about conditionals +# use `man test` for more info about conditionals if [ $Name != $USER ] then echo "Your name isn't your username" @@ -180,7 +183,7 @@ then echo "This will run if $Name is Daniya OR Zach." fi -# There is also the =~ operator, which tests a string against a Regex pattern: +# There is also the `=~` operator, which tests a string against a Regex pattern: Email=me@example.com if [[ "$Email" =~ [a-z]+@[a-z]{2,}\.(com|net|org) ]] then @@ -190,9 +193,9 @@ fi # which are subtly different from single [ ]. # See http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Conditional-Constructs for more on this. -# Redefine command 'ping' as alias to send only 5 packets +# Redefine command `ping` as alias to send only 5 packets alias ping='ping -c 5' -# Escape alias and use command with this name instead +# Escape the alias and use command with this name instead \ping 192.168.1.1 # Print all aliases alias -p @@ -205,14 +208,14 @@ echo $(( 10 + 5 )) # => 15 # directory with the ls command: ls # Lists the files and subdirectories contained in the current directory -# These commands have options that control their execution: +# This command has options that control its execution: 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. -# grep command filters the input with provided patterns. That's how we can list -# .txt files in the current directory: +# 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" # Use `cat` to print files to stdout: @@ -280,10 +283,17 @@ EOF # Run the hello.py Python script with various stdin, stdout, and # stderr redirections: python hello.py < "input.in" # pass input.in as input to the script + python hello.py > "output.out" # redirect output from the script to output.out + 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 -python hello.py > /dev/null 2>&1 # redirect all output and errors to the black hole, /dev/null, i.e., no output + +python hello.py > "output-and-error.log" 2>&1 +# redirect both output and errors 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 + # The output error will overwrite the file if it exists, # if you want to append instead, use ">>": python hello.py >> "output.out" 2>> "error.err" @@ -312,11 +322,11 @@ rm -r tempDir/ # recursively delete # current directory. 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 same can be done using backticks `` but they can't be nested - +#the preferred way is to use $( ). echo "There are `ls | wc -l` items here." -# Bash uses a case statement that works similarly to switch in Java and C++: +# Bash uses a `case` statement that works similarly to switch in Java and C++: case "$Variable" in #List patterns for the conditions you want to meet 0) echo "There is a zero.";; @@ -324,7 +334,7 @@ case "$Variable" in *) echo "It is not null.";; esac -# for loops iterate for as many arguments given: +# `for` loops iterate for as many arguments given: # The contents of $Variable is printed three times. for Variable in {1..3} do @@ -345,14 +355,14 @@ done # => 3 # They can also be used to act on files.. -# This will run the command 'cat' on file1 and file2 +# This will run the command `cat` on file1 and file2 for Variable in file1 file2 do cat "$Variable" done # ..or the output from a command -# This will cat the output from ls. +# This will `cat` the output from `ls`. for Output in $(ls) do cat "$Output" @@ -432,8 +442,8 @@ grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt | grep -v "baz" # 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 -# receives a signal. Here, trap will execute `rm` if it receives any of the +# The `trap` command allows you to execute a command whenever your script +# receives a signal. Here, `trap` will execute `rm` if it receives any of the # three listed signals. trap "rm $TEMP_FILE; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM @@ -442,7 +452,7 @@ NAME1=$(whoami) NAME2=$(sudo whoami) echo "Was $NAME1, then became more powerful $NAME2" -# Read Bash shell builtins documentation with the bash 'help' builtin: +# Read Bash shell built-ins documentation with the bash `help` built-in: help help help help for @@ -450,12 +460,12 @@ help return help source help . -# Read Bash manpage documentation with man +# Read Bash manpage documentation with `man` apropos bash man 1 bash man bash -# Read info documentation with info (? for help) +# Read info documentation with `info` (`?` for help) apropos info | grep '^info.*(' man info info info -- cgit v1.2.3 From e8dd50b85e93f1baf0c909f2716177e052672ff5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitri Kokkonis Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 19:56:02 +0200 Subject: [bash/gr] Translate Bash to greek (#3595) * Add greek translation for the HTML language * Correct typo in source file name * Translate Bash to greek --- bash.html.markdown | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 0385c46d..856db706 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ contributors: - ["Rahil Momin", "https://github.com/iamrahil"] - ["Gregrory Kielian", "https://github.com/gskielian"] - ["Etan Reisner", "https://github.com/deryni"] - - ["Jonathan Wang", "https://github.com/Jonathansw"] + - ["Jonathan Wang", "https://github.com/Jonathansw"] - ["Leo Rudberg", "https://github.com/LOZORD"] - ["Betsy Lorton", "https://github.com/schbetsy"] - ["John Detter", "https://github.com/jdetter"] - ["Harry Mumford-Turner", "https://github.com/harrymt"] - ["Martin Nicholson", "https://github.com/mn113"] filename: LearnBash.sh +translators: + - ["Dimitri Kokkonis", "https://github.com/kokkonisd"] --- Bash is a name of the unix shell, which was also distributed as the shell @@ -67,7 +69,7 @@ echo '$Variable' # => $Variable # Parameter expansion ${ }: echo ${Variable} # => Some string # This is a simple usage of parameter expansion -# Parameter Expansion gets a value from a variable. +# Parameter Expansion gets a value from a variable. # It "expands" or prints the value # During the expansion time the value or parameter can be modified # Below are other modifications that add onto this expansion @@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ echo ${Variable: -5} # => tring echo ${#Variable} # => 11 # Default value for variable -echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} +echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} # => DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty # This works for null (Foo=) and empty string (Foo=""); zero (Foo=0) returns 0. # Note that it only returns default value and doesn't change variable value. @@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ cp -r srcDirectory/ dst/ # recursively copy # `mv` is also useful for renaming files! mv s0urc3.txt dst.txt # sorry, l33t hackers... -# Since bash works in the context of a current directory, you might want to +# 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 @@ -280,7 +282,7 @@ for line in sys.stdin: EOF # Variables will be expanded if the first "EOF" is not quoted -# Run the hello.py Python script with various stdin, stdout, and +# Run the hello.py Python script with various stdin, stdout, and # stderr redirections: python hello.py < "input.in" # pass input.in as input to the script @@ -322,7 +324,7 @@ rm -r tempDir/ # recursively delete # current directory. echo "There are $(ls | wc -l) items here." -# The same can be done using backticks `` but they can't be nested - +# The same can be done using backticks `` but they can't be nested - #the preferred way is to use $( ). echo "There are `ls | wc -l` items here." @@ -442,8 +444,8 @@ grep "^foo.*bar$" file.txt | grep -v "baz" # 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 -# receives a signal. Here, `trap` will execute `rm` if it receives any of the +# The `trap` command allows you to execute a command whenever your script +# receives a signal. Here, `trap` will execute `rm` if it receives any of the # three listed signals. trap "rm $TEMP_FILE; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM -- cgit v1.2.3 From fb76c0b7fed31d7630023b85453a38a01802d026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lemonez <36384768+lemonez@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:37:30 -0700 Subject: fix small typo pass -e flag to echo to interpret escape characters correctly --- bash.html.markdown | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 856db706..00ee0632 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -225,7 +225,9 @@ cat file.txt # We can also read the file using `cat`: Contents=$(cat file.txt) -echo "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # "\n" prints a new line character +# "\n" prints a new line character +# "-e" to interpret the newline escape characters as escape characters +echo -e "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # => START OF FILE # => [contents of file.txt] # => END OF FILE -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6955861bbadd3b5e1cbe615c665186ec399b35e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oliv37 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:35:47 +0200 Subject: Add indirect expansion in bash.html.markdown --- bash.html.markdown | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 856db706..407b237b 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ echo ${Variable: -5} # => tring # String length echo ${#Variable} # => 11 +# Indirect expansion +OtherVariable="Variable" +echo ${!OtherVariable} # => Some String +# This will expand the value of the OtherVariable + # Default value for variable echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} # => DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7f1dc6ce2bde538ecaa8e8c51449215a75440d9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oliv37 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:42:18 +0200 Subject: fix typo bash.html.markdown --- bash.html.markdown | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 407b237b..0adc2efe 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ echo ${#Variable} # => 11 # Indirect expansion OtherVariable="Variable" echo ${!OtherVariable} # => Some String -# This will expand the value of the OtherVariable +# This will expand the value of OtherVariable # Default value for variable echo ${Foo:-"DefaultValueIfFooIsMissingOrEmpty"} -- cgit v1.2.3 From 211ec4f50bbd902c219e639d31cb1afec17e4f84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kevinnls <57634663+kevinnls@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 21:24:19 +0530 Subject: removed MacOS from intro MacOS no longer ships bash as the default shell --- bash.html.markdown | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown index 59aeaaf4..7ca4285b 100644 --- a/bash.html.markdown +++ b/bash.html.markdown @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ translators: --- Bash is a name of the unix shell, which was also distributed as the shell -for the GNU operating system and as default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. +for the GNU operating system and as the default shell on most Linux distros. Nearly all examples below can be a part of a shell script or executed directly in the shell. @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ cat file.txt # We can also read the file using `cat`: Contents=$(cat file.txt) # "\n" prints a new line character -# "-e" to interpret the newline escape characters as escape characters +# "-e" to interpret the newline escape characters as escape characters echo -e "START OF FILE\n$Contents\nEND OF FILE" # => START OF FILE # => [contents of file.txt] -- cgit v1.2.3 From ba2901a34291ef31cd49f5ccbd8c86d9b9c9bcd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lilian Besson Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:56:11 +0100 Subject: [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 --- bash.html.markdown | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'bash.html.markdown') 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" -- cgit v1.2.3