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6 November 2009
Talk:Conditional expression
Created page with 'This is not the conditional expression, this is the plain old test command you described some pages before. TheBonsai'
Talk:Logical Not !
Created page with 'The thing that is described here is a functionality of the test command. The shell also has a logical NOT in the pipeline syntax. It "reverses" the exit code of a command. TheB…'
Talk:Test command
Created page with 'Mention the shortcur for the test command and the conditional expression compound command somewhere TheBonsai'
Talk:Quoting
Created page with 'The ANSI C escapes are a functionality of the 'echo' command. There's a special quoting mechanism that implements this functionality directly into the shell. Use that. 'echo' was…'
Talk:Pass arguments into a function
Created page with 'Mention $FUNCNAME TheBonsai'
Talk:Defining functions
Created page with 'Same syntax problem as elsewhere: { cmd; cmd } does NOT parse correctly!'
Talk:Compound command
Created page with 'Again, the wrong syntax of the grouping brace command when the closing brace is in the same line as the last command. TheBonsai'
Talk:Sending signal to Processes
Created page with 'Please note that nobody should use the 'killall' command in other environments than Linux-like and expect the same behaviour. The original System V killall command does exactly w…'
Talk:What is a Process?
Created page with 'A zombie process is NOT an "undestroyed" process. It's not a process at all. It's the remaining process metadata, because the parent didn't query the exit status code. A zombie d…'
Talk:Signals
Created page with 'Lots of typos... "single" instead of "signal". Automatic correction? ;-) TheBonsai'
Talk:Multiple commands
Created page with 'The second example <tt>{ comman1; command2 }</tt> won't work, since the syntax parser needs a delimiter before the closing brace. You need to use <tt>{ command1; command2; }</tt>…'
Talk:Assigns the file descriptor (fd) to file for output
Created page with 'The mentioned filedescriptor is not limited to be >=3. You can of course re-assign the stdin/out/err of the shell itself if you want. TheBonsai'
Talk:Here documents
Created page with 'Here documents can be protected against expansions, depending if the tag-word is quoted or not. Also you can switch a kind of indention using the dash. http://bash-hackers.org/wi…'
Talk:/dev/null discards unwanted output
Created page with 'It should be mentioned that /dev/null can also be used to "protect" stdin, since it always sends an EOF when reading TheBonsai'
Talk:Input and Output
Created page with 'I don't understand the symbolic meaning of the triangle here. The descriptors share nothing, except their default connection ("screen", "keyboard" means "terminal" in interactive…'