Apr 3, 2012 · What does a dollar sign followed by an at-sign (@) mean in a shell script? For example: umbrella_corp_options $@

I'm trying to learn shell scripting, and I need to understand someone else's code. What is the $? variable hold? I can't Google search the answer because they block punctuation characters.

$(command) is “command substitution”. As you seem to understand, it runs the command, captures its output, and inserts that into the command line that contains the $(…); e.g., $ ls -ld $(date +%B).txt …

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.

Sep 17, 2012 · Meaning of "=~" operator in shell script [duplicate] Asked 13 years, 2 months ago Modified 12 years, 4 months ago Viewed 96k times

In shell scripts, what is the difference between $@ and $*? Which one is the preferred way to get the script arguments? Are there differences between the different shell interpreters about this?

What does echo $? mean in shell programming?true echo $? # echoes 0 false echo $? # echoes 1 From the manual: (acessible by calling man bash in your shell) ? Expands to the exit status of the most …

Shell equality operators (=, ==, -eq) Asked 12 years ago Modified 3 years, 6 months ago Viewed 648k times

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

Nov 12, 2012 · I am a system administrator and I have been asked to run a linux script to clean the system. The command is this: perl script.pl > output.log & so this command is ending with a …