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bash Quick Reference
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bash Quick Reference

by Arnold Robbins
June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
64 pages
2h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

shopt

Synopsis

shopt [-opqsu] [option]

Set or unset shell options. With no options or just -p, prints the names and settings of the options.

Options

-o

Each option must be one of the shell option names for set -o, instead of the options listed earlier in Shell Options.

-p

Print the option settings as shopt commands that can be reread later.

-q

Quiet mode. The exit status is zero if the given option is set, nonzero otherwise. With multiple options, all of them must be set for a zero exit status.

-s

Set the given options. With no options, prints only those that are set.

-u

Unset the given options. With no options, prints only those that are unset.

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