ow we can do quite a bit of string parsing and manipulation directly within bash -- which will allow our shell scripts to run faster with less overhead and may be eas... they choose to program something. Well written scripts and programs interoperate regardless of what particular scripting or programming facility was used to create th... 9.2.1. Manipulating strings using awk
A Bash script may invoke the string manipulation facilities of awk as an alternative to u... 9.2.2. Further Discussion
For more on string manipulation in scripts, refer to Section 9.3 and the relevant secti
May substitute 'less' if desired.
exit $? # Script returns exit status of pipe.
# Actually "exit $?" is unnecessary, as the script will, in any case,
#+ return the exit status of
