Bash

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-line-tools/

• https://explainshell.com/
• tldr

General Tips

Double Dash (--)

• tells shell to treat any future dashes like strings and not flags
  • npm test -- -u -t="ColorPicker"

  • the -u is a flag for the command and not npm

grep "--hello" data.txt
grep: unrecognized option '--hello'

grep -- --hello data.txt

Why git checkout -- file.txt

• the -- is optional in this case
• just a good habit, since branches usually have dashes

Command substitution

result=$(curl -X GET 'URL')

????

String substitution

${var}

"$var_name"

????

• TODO: what's the difference?

Loops

Looping over array

for var in "$@"
do
    echo "$var"
done

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Last update: 2023-04-24