Bash Cheat Sheet, Cheat Sheet of Computer Communication Systems

Download Bash Cheat Sheet and more Cheat Sheet Computer Communication Systems in PDF only on Docsity! Bash Cheat Sheet By John Stowers This file contains short tables of commonly used items in this shell. In most cases the information applies to both the Bourne shell (sh) and the newer bash shell. Tests (for ifs and loops) are done with [ ] or with the test command. Checking files: -r file Check if file is readable. -w file Check if file is writable. -x file Check if we have execute access to file. -f file Check if file is an ordinary file (as opposed to a directory, a device special file, etc.) -s file Check if file has size greater than 0. -d file Check if file is a directory. -e file Check if file exists. Is true even if file is a directory. Example: if [ -s file ] then #such and such fi Checking strings: s1 = s2 Check if s1 equals s2. s1 != s2 Check if s1 is not equal to s2. -z s1 Check if s1 has size 0. -n s1 Check if s2 has nonzero size. s1 Check if s1 is not the empty string. Example: if [ $myvar = "hello" ] ; then echo "We have a match" fi Checking numbers: Note that a shell variable could contain a string that represents a number. If you want to check the numerical value use one of the following: n1 -eq n2 Check to see if n1 equals n2. n1 -ne n2 Check to see if n1 is not equal to n2. n1 -lt n2 Check to see if n1 < n2. n1 -le n2 Check to see if n1 <= n2. n1 -gt n2 Check to see if n1 > n2. n1 -ge n2 Check to see if n1 >= n2. Example: if [ $# -gt 1 ] then echo "ERROR: should have 0 or 1 command-line parameters" fi Boolean operators: ! not -a and -o or Example: if [ $num -lt 10 -o $num -gt 100 ] then echo "Number $num is out of range" elif [ ! -w $filename ] Page 1 of 4» Bash Cheat Sheet Johns Blog 18/3/2553http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/reference/bash-cheat-sheet/ then echo "Cannot write to $filename" fi Note that ifs can be nested. For example: if [ $myvar = "y" ] then echo "Enter count of number of items" read num if [ $num -le 0 ] then echo "Invalid count of $num was given" else #... do whatever ... fi fi The above example also illustrates the use of read to read a string from the keyboard and place it into a shell variable. Also note that most UNIX commands return a true (nonzero) or false (0) in the shell variable status to indicate whether they succeeded or not. This return value can be checked. At the command line echo $status. In a shell script use something like this: if grep -q shell bshellref then echo "true" else echo "false" fi Note that -q is the quiet version of grep. It just checks whether it is true that the string shell occurs in the file bshellref. It does not print the matching lines like grep would otherwise do. I/O Redirection: pgm > file Output of pgm is redirected to file. pgm < file Program pgm reads its input from file. pgm >> file Output of pgm is appended to file. pgm1 | pgm2 Output of pgm1 is piped into pgm2 as the input to pgm2. n > file Output from stream with descriptor n redirected to file. n >> file Output from stream with descriptor n appended to file. n >& m Merge output from stream n with stream m. n <& m Merge input from stream n with stream m. << tag Standard input comes from here through next tag at start of line. Note that file descriptor 0 is normally standard input, 1 is standard output, and 2 is standard error output. Shell Built-in Variables: $0 Name of this shell script itself. $1 Value of first command line parameter (similarly $2, $3, etc) $# In a shell script, the number of command line parameters. $* All of the command line parameters. $- Options given to the shell. $? Return the exit status of the last command. $$ Process id of script (really id of the shell running the script) Pattern Matching: * Matches 0 or more characters. ? Matches 1 character. [AaBbCc] Example: matches any 1 char from the list. [^RGB] Example: matches any 1 char not in the list. [a-g] Example: matches any 1 char from this range. Quoting: \c Take character c literally. `cmd` Run cmd and replace it in the line of code with its output. "whatever" Take whatever literally, after first interpreting $, `...`, \ 'whatever' Take whatever absolutely literally. Example: Page 2 of 4» Bash Cheat Sheet Johns Blog 18/3/2553http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/reference/bash-cheat-sheet/