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Lee Xu
Lee Xu

Reputation: 35

Why does echo $-1 output this?

Can someone explain me what is happening here? What does the output means?

:$ echo $-3
himBH3
:$ echo $-2
himBH2
:$ echo $-1
himBH1

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1046

Answers (1)

Etan Reisner
Etan Reisner

Reputation: 80992

$- is a variable that contains the currently active shell options.

-

(A hyphen.) Expands to the current option flags as specified upon invocation, by the set builtin command, or those set by the shell itself (such as the -i option).

Your command is evaluating to the value of - then a number.

Upvotes: 5

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