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I've also corrected some syntax and cleaned up anything that was a bit messy. I believe it's now more presentable.
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# To implement a for loop:
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for WORD in LIST
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do
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COMMANDS
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done
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# For example:
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for CurDay in Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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do
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printf "%s\n" "$CurDay"
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done
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# To implement a case statement:
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case $1 in
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0)
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echo "Found a '0'." ;;
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1)
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echo "Found a '1'." ;;
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2)
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echo "Found a '2'." ;;
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3*)
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echo "Something beginning with '3' found." ;;
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'')
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echo "Nothing (null) found." ;;
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*)
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echo "Anything else found." ;;
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esac
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# Turn on built-in Bash debugging output:
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set -x
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# Turn the above off again:
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set +x
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# Retrieve N-th piped command exit status
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printf 'foo' | grep -F 'foo' | sed 's/foo/bar/'
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echo ${PIPESTATUS[0]} # replace 0 with N
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# Lock file:
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( set -o noclobber; echo > my.lock ) || echo 'Failed to create lock file'
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# Fork bomb. Do not run this! Has the potential to wreak havoc. It repeatedly
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# and quickly spawns a bazillion processes until the system eventually locks up.
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:(){ :|:& };:
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# An alternative, easier-to-understand version without the obfuscation:
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func(){ func | func & }; func
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# Unix Roulette, courtesy of Bigown's answer in the joke thread.
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#
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# DANGER! Don't execute!
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#
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# Luckily, most modern setups have `--preserve-root` on by default, so this will be
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# null and void, but even so, not even remotely worth the risk!
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[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf /* || echo Click #Roulette
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# A for loop one-liner.
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for CurIter in {1..4}; do echo "$CurIter"; done
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# Alternative, slightly-cleaner syntax:
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for CurIter in {1..4}; { echo "$CurIter"; }
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# Test for a variable being equal to (`-eq`) an integer (`0`).
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if [ $var -eq 0 ]; then
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printf "Variable '\$var' is equal to '0'.\n"
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fi
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# Test for a `PATH` executable existing as a file, but note that aliases and
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# functions will also output and result in a `0` exit status.
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command -v ${program} >/dev/null 2>&1 || error "${program} not installed"
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# However, that is a solution commonly found in a script using the Bourne shell, so
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# in this case, an alternative, Bash-like, and more accurate version could be:
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if ! type -fP bash > /dev/null 2>&1; then
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printf "ERROR: Dependency 'bash' not met." >&2
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exit 1
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fi
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# Send both STDOUT and STDERR from COMMAND to FILE. The `2>&1` must go at the end.
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COMMAND > FILE 2>&1
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# Send STDOUT and STDERR from COMMAND to `/dev/null`, where data goes to die.
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COMMAND > /dev/null 2>&1
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# Pipe the STDOUT and STDERR from COMMAND_1 to COMMAND_2.
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COMMAND_1 |& COMMAND_2
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# Verbosely convert whitespaces (` `) to underscores (`_`) in the names of files.
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for name in *\ *; do mv -vn "$name" "${name// /_}"; done
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