Does redirecting output to a file apply a lock on the file?
If I have a command
bash
Is there a maximum size to the bash history file?
Can I increase the size of the command history in bash?
Shell valid function name characters
Using extended Unicode characters is (no-doubt) useful for many users.
Is it possible to print the content of the content of a variable with shell script? (indirect referencing)
Let’s suppose I’ve declared the following variables:
How to determine callee function name in a script
To make it short, doing something like:
Why isn’t there any shell command to create files?
Attention please: I am not asking how to make a file from the command line! I have been using touch for making files for years without paying attention that its main purpose is something else. If one wants to create a file from command line there are so many possibilities: touch foo.bar > foo.bar cat … Read more
Why is the ‘if [ $1=”1″ ]’ branch always selected even if $1 is not 1?
I have a shell script named ‘teleport.sh’ like this:
bash -e exits when let or expr evaluates to 0
I have a bash script that sets -e so the script will exit on any exit status != 0.
Order of executables started in bash
If I execute the test command in bash, test(evaluates conditional expression) built-in utility is started:
Bind C-i and TAB keys to different commands in terminal applications via .inputrc
For what I have tried, TAB and C-i in .inputrc seems to mean the same thing, whatever I bind to one is bound to the other. I know that originally, it was the same thing and that this behavior is kind of inherited from the old times but nowadays, apart from terminal emulators, all X applications makes the difference between a C-i and a TAB press.