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Variables are programming part of the bash and very useful. Without variables bash will be very inefficient shell. Variables are used by bash itself, running applications, daemons, X (graphic) server and for a lot of things.
Define Variable
Defining variables are easy in bash, just variable and data is enough. echo is used to print variables into terminal. With equal sign variable values are set. As you see page, Page, PAGE are different variables this means bash is case sensitive.
$ page="poftut.com" $ PAGE="http://poftut.com" $ Page="http://www.poftut.com" $ echo $page poftut.com $ echo $Page http://www.poftut.com $ echo $PAGE http://poftut.com
Delete/Undefine Variable
Sometimes we don’t need variables that are created before and we want simple delete them. unset keyword is used to delete variable completely.
$ test=5 $ echo $test 5 $ unset test $ echo $test
Change Variable Value
There is no extra effort to change existing variable value. It is just like creating new variable
$ page="poftut.com" $ echo $page poftut.com $ page="www.poftut.com" $ echo $page www.poftut.com
Concatenate Variables
To join variables together just put them together. In the second echo we put one space between hello and poftut variables which effects printed string too.
$ hello="Hello " $ poftut="www.poftut.com" $ echo $hello$poftut Hello www.poftut.com $ echo $hello" "$poftut Hello www.poftut.com
We create two variables named hello and poftut. Than we echo both by joining together without any operator.In the second echo we put single space between them and then join all of them together.
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