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VariableDetails$* / $@Function/script positional parameters (arguments). Expand as follows:$* and $@ are the same as $1 $2 ... (note that it generally makes no sense to leave those unquoted)"$*" is the same as "$1 $2 ..." 1 "$@" is the same as "$1" "$2&qu...

An environment variable pointing to the Bash startup file which is read when a script is invoked.

An array containing the full version information split into elements, much more convenient than $BASH_VERSION if you're just looking for the major version: ~> $ for ((i=0; i<=5; i++)); do echo "BASH_VERSINFO[$i] = ${BASH_VERSINFO[$i]}"; done BASH_VERSINFO[0] = 3 BASH_VERSINFO[1] =...

Shows the version of bash that is running, this allows you to decide whether you can use any advanced features: ~> $ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.1.2(1)-release

To get the name of the current function - type: my_function() { echo "This function is $FUNCNAME" # This will output "This function is my_function" } This instruction will return nothing if you type it outside the function: my_function echo "This function i...

The hostname assigned to the system during startup. ~> $ echo $HOSTNAME mybox.mydomain.com

Outputs the line number in the current script. Mostly useful when debugging scripts. #!/bin/bash # this is line 2 echo something # this is line 3 echo $LINENO # Will output 4

The number of seconds a script has been running. This can get quite large if shown in the shell: ~> $ echo $SECONDS 98834

LINQ provides a built-in function for checking the equality of two IEnumerables, and that function can be used on arrays. The SequenceEqual function will return true if the arrays have the same length and the values in corresponding indices are equal, and false otherwise. int[] arr1 = { 3, 5, 7 };...

Consider this example function to check if a host is up: is_alive() { ping -c1 "$1" &> /dev/null } This function sends a single ping to the host specified by the first function parameter. The output and error output of ping are both redirected to /dev/null, so the functi...

Decorator is one of structural design patterns. It is used to add, remove or change behaviour of object. This document will teach you how to use Decorator DP properly. Let me explain the idea of it to you on a simple example. Imagine you're now in Starbobs, famous coffee company. You can place an o...

Comments in Sass vs. Scss are largely similar, except when multi-lines are concerned. SASS multi-lines are indentation-sensitive, while SCSS relies on comment terminators. Single-Line Comment style.scss // Just this line will be commented! h1 { color: red; } style.sass // Exactly the same ...

ssh -p 21 [email protected] <<EOF echo 'printing pwd' echo "\$(pwd)" ls -a find '*.txt' EOF $ is escaped because we do not want it to be expanded by the current shell i.e $(pwd) is to be executed on the remote shell. Another way: ssh -p 21 [email protected] <...

sudo -s <<EOF a='var' echo 'Running serveral commands with sudo' mktemp -d echo "\$a" EOF $a needs to be escaped to prevent it to be expanded by the current shell Or sudo -s <<'EOF' a='var' echo 'Running serveral commands with sudo' mktemp -d e...

Detailed instructions on getting google-bigquery set up or installed.

Inside your layout, add a Login button with the following code: <com.twitter.sdk.android.core.identity.TwitterLoginButton android:id="@+id/twitter_login_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" and...

The class use Phalcon\Validation\Validator; use Phalcon\Validation\ValidatorInterface; use Phalcon\Validation\Message; class RecaptchaValidator extends Validator implements ValidatorInterface { public function validate(\Phalcon\Validation $validation, $attribute) { $value =...

Things you need A paid Apple Developer Program Membership A valid App ID and identifier for you app (like com.example.MyApp) which is not used before anywhere Access to developer.apple.com and Member Center An iOS Device to test (as Push Notifications don't work on Simulator) Enabling t...

You can find description of the driver here. The quick example is: import psycopg2 db_host = 'postgres.server.com' db_port = '5432' db_un = 'user' db_pw = 'password' db_name = 'testdb' conn = psycopg2.connect("dbname={} host={} user={} password={}".format( ...

In order to determine some simple statistics of a value in a column of a table, you can use an aggregate function. If your individuals table is: NameAgeAllie17Amanda14Alana20 You could write this statement to get the minimum, maximum and average value: SELECT min(age), max(age), avg(age) FROM i...