tldr/pages/common/bash.md

bash

Bourne-Again SHell, an sh-compatible command line interpreter. See also histexpand for history expansion. More information: https://gnu.org/software/bash.

• Start interactive shell:

bash

• Execute a command:

bash -c "{{command}}"

• Run commands from a file:

bash {{file.sh}}

• Run commands from a file, logging all commands executed to the terminal:

bash -x {{file.sh}}

• Run commands from a file, stopping at the first error:

bash -e {{file.sh}}

• Run commands from stdin:

bash -s

• Print the version information of bash (use echo $BASH_VERSION to show just the version without license information):

bash --version