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substitutions

    This subchapter looks at substitutions in UNIX (and Linux).

command substitution

    Command substitution is used to assign the output of a command to a variable.

    Place the command in sideways ticks (`) around the command. Do not confuse these with regular single quotation marks (').

    You can place a simple command, a pipeline, or a command list inside the tick marks.

    An example of a simple command:

    $ DATE=`date`

    An example of a pipeline:

    $ CONSOLEUSER=`who | grep console`

    An example of a command list:

    $ FILEUSAGE=`date ; df`

    You can use command substitution to create parameters for other commands.

    In the following example, the user name is used for grep word search of the file named names:

    $ grep `id -un` names

    You can use $( ) as a replacement for ` `. If you nest backticks inside of each other, you need to escape the internal backticks. You do not need to escape nested $( ).

    $ DATEVAR=$(date)
    $ echo $DATEVAR
    $Mon Aug 26 19:35:47 PDT 2013
    $

    If there is only one level of nesting, some people use the convention of using $() for the outer expression adn backicks (``) fr the inner expression.

arithmetic substitution

    You can use arithmetic substitution for quick integer artihmetic.

    Place an integer arithmetic expression inside double parenthesis and place a dollar mark before the parenthesized expression (wow, that’s a lot of words), $(( expression )).

    $(( 5 + 3 ))

    You may use integer constants or integer variables:

    $(( 5 + $z ))

    You may post-increment, post-decrement, pre-increment, or pre-decrement variables:

    $(( --x + z++ ))

    You may use negative integers:

    $(( -1 * -2 ))

    You may use logical (!) and bitwise (~) negation:

    $(( !1 * ~2 ))

    The order of precedence (and complete list of possible operations):

operatormeaning
VAR++ VAR--variable post-increment and pre-increment
++VAR --VARvariable pre-increment and pre-decrement
- +unary minus and plus
! ~logical negation and bitwise negation
**exponentiation
* / %multiplication, division, and modulo
+ -addition and subtraction
<< >>left bitwise shift and right bitwise shift
<= >= < >comparison operators
== !=equality and inequality
&bitwise AND
^bitwise exclusive OR
|bitwise OR
&&logical AND
||logical OR
expression ? expression : expressionC-style conditional evaluation
= *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= &= ^= !=assignments
,separator between expressions

    Applying the precedence rules:

    $(( ((3 + 5*2) -8) /2 ))

    The result for the above expression is 2. It is not 2.5 because this is integer arithmetic. It is not 4 because the multiplcation has a higher precedence than addition.

    You can have a raw expression, which is useful if it includes an assignment operator:

    $ n=1
    $ echo $n
    1
    $ (( n += 3 ))
    $ echo $n
    4
    $


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