CHAPTER 5
Parameters and Variables
Variables have been part of the Unix shell since its inception more than 30 years ago, but their features have grown over the years. The standard Unix shell now has parameter expansions that perform sophisticated manipulations on their contents. bash adds even more expansion capabilities as well as indexed and associative arrays.
This chapter covers what you can do with variables and parameters, including their scope. In other words, after a variable has been defined, where can its value be accessed? This chapter gives a glimpse of the more than 80 variables used by the shell that are available to the programmer. ...
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