[GRLUG] Apparently It's been too long since I Bashed

[John J. Foerch]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:10:56PM -0500, Ben DeMott wrote:
> Today I forgot a series of things about Bash that I'm ashamed to admit, and
> didn't realize until I started modifying a script.
> 
> 1.) You can't have spaces between variable names, the equals-symbol, and the
> value... :)
> 2.) When you have a command line argument within quotes it will pass it like
> you quoted it in the console ... (DUH)
> 3.) I had to search for a few minutes because I forgot what the command was to
> import variables from a "config" file... yes its "source" - durrr, I then
> remembered that the (dot operator) works the same way.
> 
> I probably won't touch a shell script for another 3 months and will have to
> re-discover those 3 points allover again.
> 
> Fortunately from all my time with PHP I never forget the marvelous
> concatenation syntax.
> 
> myvar="${var2}/my/path"  ;-)
> 
> Well it's been fun getting reacquainted.


Know the feeling.  I keep this url close at hand when I need to do more
than the basics with bash:

  http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

-- 
John Foerch