bash Pocket Reference

Name

shopt — Manage shell options.

Synopsis

shopt [-opqsu] [option]

Set or unset shell options. With no options or just -p, print the names and settings of the options. See the section Shell Options, for a description of the various options.

Options

-o

Each option must be one of the shell option names for set -o, instead of the options listed in Shell Options.

-p

Print the option settings as shopt commands that can be reread later.

-q

Quiet mode. The exit status is zero if the given option is set, nonzero otherwise. With multiple options, all of them must be set for a zero exit status.

-s

Set the given options. With no options, print only those that are set.

-u

Unset the given options. With no options, print only those that are unset.