Bash Manipulating a variable
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#!/bin/bash # Manipulating a variable, C-style, using the ((...)) construct.
echo
(( a = 23 )) # Setting a value, C-style, with spaces on both sides of the "=". echo "a (initial value) = $a"
(( a++ )) # Post-increment 'a', C-style. echo "a (after a++) = $a"
(( a-- )) # Post-decrement 'a', C-style. echo "a (after a--) = $a"
(( ++a )) # Pre-increment 'a', C-style. echo "a (after ++a) = $a"
(( --a )) # Pre-decrement 'a', C-style. echo "a (after --a) = $a"
echo
(( t = a<45?7:11 )) # C-style trinary operator. echo "If a < 45, then t = 7, else t = 11." echo "t = $t " # Yes!
echo
# ----------------- # Easter Egg alert! # ----------------- # Chet Ramey apparently snuck a bunch of undocumented C-style constructs #+ into Bash (actually adapted from ksh, pretty much). # In the Bash docs, Ramey calls ((...)) shell arithmetic, #+ but it goes far beyond that. # Sorry, Chet, the secret is now out.
# See also "for" and "while" loops using the ((...)) construct.
# These work only with Bash, version 2.04 or later.
exit 0
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