What does $# mean in shell? I have code such as if [ $# -eq 0 ] then I want to understand what $# means, but Google search is very bad for searching these kinds of things.

Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) Asked 12 years, 1 month ago Modified 3 years, 7 months ago Viewed 650k times

Oct 27, 2021 · The shell will try to create directory test and then, only if it was successful will try create file inside it. So you may interrupt a sequence of steps if one of them failed.

Shell - "Shell" is a program, which facilitates the interaction between the user and the operating system (kernel). There are many shell implementations available, like sh, Bash, C shell, Z shell, etc.

Feb 20, 2011 · When going through one shell script, I saw the term "$?". What is the significance of this term?

May 8, 2012 · I understand the basic difference between an interactive shell and a non-interactive shell. But what exactly differentiates a login shell from a non-login shell? Can you give examples for uses of...

Here shell is an alias for bash. Chroma has something called Session. Pygments (doc) uses console, shell-session for bash sessions, pwsh-session, ps1con for power shell sessions and many other non …

Sep 30, 2010 · How to represent multiple conditions in a shell if statement? Asked 15 years, 3 months ago Modified 3 years, 11 months ago Viewed 1.2m times

Nov 15, 2010 · A bashism is a shell feature which is only supported in bash and certain other more advanced shells. It will not work under busybox sh or dash (which is /bin/sh on a lot of distros), or …

I have recently started studying shell script and I'd like to be able to comment out a set of lines in a shell script. I mean like it is in case of C/Java : /* comment1 comment2 comment3 */ ...