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terminalforlife 7da14d62dd Improve wording, grammar, and overall message
I've also corrected some syntax and cleaned up anything that was a bit
messy. I believe it's now more presentable.
2019-12-05 01:31:57 +00:00

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