It depends on the Test Construct around the operator. Your options are double parentheses, double brackets, single brackets, or test. If you use ((…)), you are testing arithmetic equality …

The switches -a and -n are not strictly part of a bash if statement in that the if command does not process these switches. What are primaries? I call them "switches", but the bash …

An "and" operator for an "if" statement in Bash Asked 12 years, 11 months ago Modified 1 year, 3 months ago Viewed 988k times

Feb 9, 2016 · The double-brace keyword is a bash expression, and will not work with other POSIX shells, but it has some benefits, as well, such as being able to do these kinds of operations …

Oct 4, 2008 · Related discusions: bash for loop: a range of numbers and unix.stackexchange.com - In bash, is it possible to use an integer variable in the loop control of a for loop?

Feb 10, 2010 · How do I compare a variable to a string (and do something if they match)?

@dutCh's answer shows that bash does have something similar to the "ternary operator" however in bash this is called the "conditional operator" expr?expr:expr (see man bash goto section …

Jan 30, 2017 · #!/bin/bash # To focus exclusively on the performance of each type of increment # statement, we should exclude bash performing while loops from the # performance measure.

By default, Bash does not do this. This default behavior is exactly what you want if you are using Bash on the command line you don't want a typo to log you out! But in a script, you really want …

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