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What are steps that a UNIX shell follows while processing a command?

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What are steps that a UNIX shell follows while processing a command?
posted Feb 27, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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The sequence of executing commands by shell are as follows:

Parsing: The command is broke into words, by using the spaces as delimiters unless quoted. The tabs are replaced by a single space.

Evaluation of a variable: The words with $ as preceding character will be evaluted unless quoted.

Command Substitution: The commands surrounded by backquotes will be executed by the shell. Later these will be replaced into standard output of the command into command line.

Wild card interpretation: Finally, the shell identifies all the wild cards(?,*) in the command line and replaces the wild card with sorted list of file names which maches the pattern.

PATH evaluation: Ultimately shell looks for the PATH variable for the purpose of determining the sequence of directories to search for the files or commands.

answer Feb 27, 2016 by Shivaranjini
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