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What does $- display

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?

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Originally Posted by kinny (Post 3736716)

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