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 an interactive shell session:

bash

• Execute a command and then exit:

bash -c "{{command}}"

• Execute a script:

bash {{path/to/script.sh}}

• Execute a script, printing each command before executing it:

bash -x {{path/to/script.sh}}

• Execute commands from a script, stopping at the first error:

bash -e {{path/to/script.sh}}

• Read and execute commands from stdin:

bash -s

• Print the Bash version ($BASH_VERSION contains the version without license information):

bash --version