Bash scripting: How to output and format text on Linux Shell

[crosscourt]

Look here, www.lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=264779

[chris]

There's a major mistake in that runthrough. He says "x=100" and then "echo x". That will echo "x" not "100". (Should be "$x"). ALSO he would be better doing a tutorial on the bash printf command.

[crosscourt]

Feel free to contact him and discuss the issue.

[tlmiller]

Although he does it correctly in the screenshot, it does indeed show echo $x