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Fundamentals of Linux
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Fundamentals of Linux

by Oliver Pelz
June 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
234 pages
5h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Bash shell variables

In this section, we will introduce you to Linux Bash shell variables. Bash shell variables are a great way to give symbolic names to any dynamic values, so we can reference values by a name. This helps to create very flexible and convenient systems where you often only have to change a single value, and all processes on your computer accessing this value can change their behavior automatically. Using shell variables provides a simple way to share configuration settings between multiple applications and processes in Linux, as we will see in the next section. To define a new environment variable, use the following syntax MY_VALUE=1, name of the variable equals, then the value. All Bash shell variables must ...

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