[ORIGINAL CREATION] BASH tips

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The BASH and Bourne shell has a poorly documented feature that its termination status is 128 plus the signal number.

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2>&1   means descriptor 2 is a copy of descriptor 1.  dup2(1, 2);

exec 3>&1                              # Save current "value" of stdout.

ls -l 2>&1 >&3 3>&- | grep bad 3>&-    # Close fd 3 for 'ls' and 'grep'.

exec 3>&-                              # Now close it for the remainder of the script.

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stty tostop
Disable ability of background jobs to output to controlling terminal.

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ls 有一个 F 选项哦

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ln -s /some/dir .
把/some/dir下的所以文件软链接到当前目录  

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$command 5<>tmp
The clause 5<>tmp opens the file tmp for reading & writing on file descriptor 5.

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 if [ `pwd` == "$LOG_DIR" ]
pay attention to the blanks between every element of the statement.

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$*  

All of the positional parameters, seen as a single word

$@ 

Same as $*, but each parameter is a quoted string, that is, the parameters are passed on intact, without interpretation or expansion. This means, among other things, that each parameter in the argument list is seen as a separate word.

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#!/bin/bash

# Using 'shift' to step through all the positional parameters.

 

# Name this script something like shft,

# and invoke it with some parameters, for example

# ./shft a b c def 23 skidoo

 

until [ -z "$1" ]  # Until all parameters used up...

do

 echo -n "$1 "

 shift

done

 

echo   # Extra line feed.

 

exit 0

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if [ -n "$1" ]

# Test if command line argument present (non-empty).

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select vegetable in "beans" "carrots" "potatoes" "onions" "rutabagas"

do

 echo

 echo "Your favorite veggie is $vegetable."

 echo "Yuck!"

 echo

 break  # if no 'break' here, keeps looping forever.

done

If [in list] omitted, so 'select' uses arguments passed to function.