{"id":37398,"date":"2019-08-26T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=37398"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:00:59","slug":"using-variables-in-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=37398","title":{"rendered":"Using variables in Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/bash_command_line[1].png\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" alt=\"bash logo on green background\" title=\"bash logo on green background\"><\/p>\n<p>In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it&rsquo;s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a <em>string<\/em>, in computer lingo) or a number (an <em>integer<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/8\/using-variables-bash\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In computer science (and casual computing), a variable is a location in memory that holds arbitrary information for later use. In other words, it&rsquo;s a temporary storage container for you to put data into and get data out of. In the Bash shell, that data can be a word (a string, in computer lingo) or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}