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According to the Open Group Base Specifications, IFS is an abbreviation for "input field separators." [1] A newer version of this specification mentions that "this name is misleading as the IFS characters are actually used as field terminators."
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, printf is a shell builtin (and utility program [2]) that formats and outputs text like the same-named C function. Originally named for outputting to a printer, it actually outputs to standard output. [3] The command accepts a format string, which specifies how to format values, and a list of values.
LANG = C tr a-z A-Z <<- END_TEXT Here doc with <<-A single space character (i.e. 0x20 ) is at the beginning of this line This line begins with a single TAB character i.e 0x09 as does the next line END_TEXT echo The intended end was before this line echo and these were not processed by tr echo +++++ LANG = C tr a-z A-Z << END_TEXT Here doc with ...
0x0A (line feed, LF, \n, ^J), moves the print head down one line, or to the left edge and down. Used as the end of line marker in most UNIX systems and variants. 0x0B (vertical tab, VT, \v, ^K), vertical tabulation. 0x0C (form feed, FF, \f, ^L), to cause a printer to eject paper to the top of the next page, or a video terminal to clear the screen.
Line vs. block – a line comment starts with a delimiter and continues to the end of the line (newline marker) whereas a block comment starts with one delimiter and ends with another and can cross lines; Nestable – whether a block comment can be inside another block comment
When a user presses the tab key within an interactive command-shell, Bash automatically uses command line completion, since beta version 2.04, [94] to match partly typed program names, filenames and variable names. The Bash command-line completion system is very flexible and customizable, and is often packaged with functions that complete ...
A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or a sequence of characters, is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one. [1]
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. [2]