General :: Difference Between Ksh And Bash?
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Quote:
parag@station3:~$ ls -l /bin/bash ; ls -l /bin/sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 725136 2008-05-13 00:18 /bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-12-03 21:42 /bin/sh -> dash
parag@station3:~$
Whats the difference, and when do you use which?
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$VAR
$(VAR)
$((VAR))
$($VAR)
$(($VAR))
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Further to solved LQ thread Bash: how to populate a list of arbitrarily named files?, what is the functional difference between feeding a loop with process substitution and feeding it with a here string with embedded command substitution? ABSG pages: process substitution, here string and command substitution. This works
Code:
while IFS= read -r -d '' file
do
files+=("$file")
done < <(find $dir -type f -print0)
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I create a bash script that writes another bash file. But in the generated bash file I want to write a bash command in the file and not executing it.Here's my bash file:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
cat > ~/generateGridmix2data.sh << END
[code]...
below are the details of my system. I have bash as my current shell, some really common commands aren't working.
Do I need to do a re-installation of bash? Or how do I install a selection of bash commands which I need? (for example a subset of [URL])
Code:
root@sdptfw:~ # uname -a
Linux sdptfw.sdpt.co.za 2.4.36 #1 Tue Jul 22 13:13:24 GMT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@sdptfw:~ # echo $SHELL$
/bin/bash$
[Code]....
df -k
/dev/sda6 25396228 21249088 2836240 89% /export
21G used[code].....
The 3.4G is correct because we have removed all non essential file but free space reported by df is not consistent with the actual free space that should be there.
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Code:
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uname -p
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uname -i
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