Section 6.15. Command-Line Options

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6.15. Command-Line Options

Bash supports many command-line options. Some of the most useful are shown in Figure 6-51.

Figure 6-51. Some Bash command-line options.

-c string	Run string as a shell command.
-s	Read commands from standard input.
--login	Run Bash as a login shell. This is useful if you can't set Bash to be your login shell with chsh.
--noprofile	Ignore Bash profile files (systemwide and user versions).
--norc	Ignore Bash rc files (~/.bashrc).
--posix	Run in Posix mode (same as set o posix).
--verbose | -v	Print shell input lines as they are read (same as set o verbose).