Bash Tutorial

There are two types of bash for loops available. One using the “in” keyword with list of values, another using the C programming like syntax. This article is part of our on-going bash tutorial series. This explains both of the bash for loop methods, and provides 12 different examples on how to use the bash [...]

Bash has several commands that comes with the shell (i.e built inside the bash shell). When you execute a built-in command, bash shell executes it immediately, without invoking any other program. Bash shell built-in commands are faster than external commands, because external commands usually fork a process to execute it. In this article let us [...]

In bash shell, when you use a dollar sign followed by a variable name, shell expands the variable with its value. This feature of shell is called parameter expansion. But parameter expansion has numerous other forms which allow you to expand a parameter and modify the value or substitute other values in the expansion process. [...]

Bash shell case statement is similar to switch statement in C. It can be used to test simple values like integers and characters. Case statement is not a loop, it doesn’t execute a block of code for n number of times. Instead, bash shell checks the condition, and controls the flow of the program. In [...]

Looping statements are used to force a program to repeatedly execute a statement. The executed statement is called the loop body. Loops execute until the value of a controlling expression is 0. The controlling expression may be any scalar data type. The shell language also provide several iteration or looping statements. In this article let [...]

Bash expression is the combination of operators, features, or values used to form a bash conditional statement. Conditional expression could be binary or unary expression which involves numeric, string or any commands whose return status is zero when success. There are several conditional expressions that could be used to test with the files. Following are [...]

Bash conditional statements perform different computations or actions depending on whether a programmer-specified boolean condition evaluates to true or false. These statements are used to execute different parts of your shell program depending on whether certain conditions are true. The ability to branch makes shell scripts powerful. In Bash, we have the following conditional statements: [...]