ght see references to the basename and dirname commands. These perform simple string manipulations on their arguments. You'll also see many uses of sed and awk or perl -e to perform simple string manipulations.
Often these machinations are necessary p... few examples would have helped. To understand the man page I simply experimented with the echo command and several shell variables. This is what it all... "globbing") is done by the shell -- before the command is executed. Thus the command normally sees a list of filenames (like "foo.txt
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#+ return the exit status of the last command executed.
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The -o and -a operators work with the test command or occur within single test brackets.
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