Thanks Ahmed for this concsice article covers shell scripting essentials which will help in writingand understanding the bash file...my doubt is 1. Do we need to use only the uppercase for the variable?....2. what is the difference between the sh and bash ..what is default in Mac terminal....
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Using uppercase variable names is a naming convention you'll see in most scripts out there. You can chose a different convention :) nothing is stopping you :)
sh stands for shell. bash is a shell. Read @maxwell_dev's post at the beginning of the article.
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Using uppercase is a convention for variables from the parent environment. Lowercase for variables that are local to our script.
I see people use uppercase all the time, but it's usually just because a lot of scripts don't need local variables and that's how they learnt.
I mean, it doesn't really matter... but I am the cheerleader for Team Lowercase.
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Thanks Ahmed for this concsice article covers shell scripting essentials which will help in writingand understanding the bash file...my doubt is 1. Do we need to use only the uppercase for the variable?....2. what is the difference between the sh and bash ..what is default in Mac terminal....
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shstands forshell. bash is a shell. Read @maxwell_dev's post at the beginning of the article.Using uppercase is a convention for variables from the parent environment. Lowercase for variables that are local to our script.
I see people use uppercase all the time, but it's usually just because a lot of scripts don't need local variables and that's how they learnt.
I mean, it doesn't really matter... but I am the cheerleader for Team Lowercase.