This tutorial lists down all the operators available in Korn Shell. Here most of the operators are very similar to what we have in C Programming language.
Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence:
Arithmatic and Logical Operators:
Operator | Description |
+ | Unary plus |
- | Unary minus |
!~ | Logical negation; binary inversion (one's complement) |
* | Multiply |
/ | Divide |
% | Modulo |
+ | Add |
- | Subtract |
<< | Left shift |
>> | Right shift |
== | String comparison for equality |
!= | String comparison for non equality |
=~ | Pattern matching |
& | Bitwise "and" |
^ | Bitwise "exclusive or" |
| | Bitwise "inclusive or" |
&& | Logical "and" |
|| | Logical "or" |
++ | Increment |
-- | Decrement |
= | Assignment |
File Test Operators:
There are following operators to test various properties associated with a Unix file.
Operator | Description |
-r file | Checks if file is readable if yes then condition becomes true. |
-w file | Check if file is writable if yes then condition becomes true. |
-x file | Check if file is execute if yes then condition becomes true. |
-f file | Check if file is an ordinary file as opposed to a directory or special file if yes then condition becomes true. |
-s file | Check if file has size greater than 0 if yes then condition becomes true. |
-d file | Check if file is a directory if yes then condition becomes true. |
-e file | Check if file exists. Is true even if file is a directory but exists. |
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