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  2. getopt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getopt

    getopt is a system dependent function, and its behavior depends on the implementation in the C library. Some custom implementations like gnulib are available, however. [6]The conventional (POSIX and BSD) handling is that the options end when the first non-option argument is encountered, and that getopt would return -1 to signal that.

  3. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

    Bash supports process substitution using the <(command) and >(command)syntax, which substitutes the output of (or input to) a command where a filename is normally used. (This is implemented through /proc/fd/ unnamed pipes on systems that support that, or via temporary named pipes where necessary).

  4. Shell script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script

    A shell script can provide a convenient variation of a system command where special environment settings, command options, or post-processing apply automatically, but in a way that allows the new script to still act as a fully normal Unix command. One example would be to create a version of ls, the command to list files, giving it a shorter ...

  5. read (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    read is a command found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It reads a line of input from standard input or a file passed as an argument to its -u flag, and assigns it to a variable. It is built into shells such as Bash. [1]

  6. getopts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getopts

    getopts is a built-in Unix shell command for parsing command-line arguments. It is designed to process command line arguments that follow the POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines, based on the C interface of getopt. The predecessor to getopts was the external program getopt by Unix System Laboratories.

  7. Here document - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document

    Here documents are available in many Unix shells. [1] In the following example, text is passed to the tr command (transliterating lower to upper-case) using a here document. This could be in a shell file, or entered interactively at a prompt.

  8. Comparison of command shells - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells

    Wildcard completion is a generalization of path completion, where an expression matches any number of files, using any supported syntax for file matching. Variable completion is the completion of the name of a variable name (environment variable or shell variable). Bash, zsh, and fish have completion for all variable names.

  9. Unix shell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell

    A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language , and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts .