Work Recipes et al

After setting up a GitHub account, configure your local repository, using gitbash Create a folder for your local repository    mkdir /c/localrepo    cd /c/localrepo Git localrepo config    git config –global user.name “username”    git config –global user.email “youremail@yourdomain”    git init    git remote add origin  https://github.com/username/repository.git Copy/Create your file in your local repository and configure it for git    git add File.txt    git commit -m “Add a comment for your addition/update” Push your file from your localrepo to your GitHub repository    git push warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value has changed in Git 2.0 from ‘matching’ to ‘simple’. To squelch this message and maintain the traditional behavior, use:   git config –global push.default matching To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:   git config –g...

I was in a situation where I had to find a simple way to a variable mapping. The script whatIs would have to translate the received parameter  into the predefined values within the script. I wanted something straightforward, and didn't want to do a series of ifs to compare the contents.  The easiest solution I found was to simply use 'eval' to retrieve the matching value of the passed parameter and provide me with the correlated value. whatIs: orange="fruit" potato="vegetable" cod="fish" eval "v=\$$1" echo $v Call script whatIs with parameter orange and the output will be the value assigned to orange in the script. whatIs orange > fruit As for my use case, I would then use the output ( in this example: fruit ) as a variable name and use in my program.