Scripting

Topics

Control flow

Pages

• Arrays
• Associative arrays
• Braces
• Check OS

  Get the name of the current operating using the shell and use it in control flow

• Copy
• Date and time
• Docstring
• Evaluation

  Evaluating expressions in the shell

• Execute

  How to run shell scripts

• Exit status
• Functions
• Input and output

  How to handle input and output of data between shell commands in a chain

• Looping
• Options

  Set shell options in a script or at a global level to change how the shell behaves

• Overview
• Parameter expansion
• Parse custom options
• Quick reference
• Random
• Read user input
• Replace

  Find and replace text in a file, a variable or a string

• Script arguments
• Sequence
• Shebang
• Size
• Skip errors
• Strings
• Unset
• Variables
• While
• Working with shells