I don't know from which "manual" you got that, but there are more errors then correct words in it. Shame on whoever wrote this drivel. The correct form would be:
or, in a more readable way:
Note that [ is actually a real command: it is a different way to invoke /bin/test. Written in "long form" where the command is more easily recognisable it would be:
The command
will return 0 (logical TRUE) if the variable i is lower than 4 and 1 (logically FALSE) otherwise. The while-loop is repeated as long as the control-command (in this case /bin/test) returns 0 and stops if it returns 1. The following will read a complete file:
because the read-command returns 0 as long as it can read a line but returns 1 when it hits end-of-file.
I am embarrassed to ask this but I am at the end of my rope.
I am trying to assign one (string) variable to another.
I do understand that bash variables are "not typed", but still learning usage of {} and spaces in script.
I was hoping this syntax would work
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