What does $- display

kinny · 10-29-2009, 10:05 AM

Hi
I stumbled upon this when i was displaying all the options of $prefixed values.

but i am curious what echo $- display. In my linux box it displayed
himBH

Any idea what this means?

TB0ne · 10-29-2009, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kinny

Hi
I stumbled upon this when i was displaying all the options of $prefixed values.

but i am curious what echo $- display. In my linux box it displayed
himBH

Any idea what this means?

Snip from the BASH help:

Code:

-h Remember the location of commands as they are looked up.
-i Force the shell to be an "interactive" one.
Interactive shells always read `~/.bashrc' on startup.
-m Job control is enabled
braceexpand same as -B
histexpand same as -H