How to know if extglob is enabled in the current bash session?
Just run:
$ shopt extglob
It will return the current status:
$ shopt extglob
extglob on
$ shopt -u extglob
$ shopt extglob
extglob off
To show all options, just run:
$ shopt
Use shopt -q:
shopt -q extglob && echo enable || echo disable
-q
option make shopt
discard output, and return status to indicate that options set or unset.
Note that shopt
only reports options which can appear in BASHOPTS
variable, those options are not valid to set
builtin command.
To check for options which are valid to set
, or can be appear in SHELLOPTS
, use shopt -qo
:
$ bash --posix -c 'shopt -qo posix && echo enable || echo disable'
enable
There are two lists of options in bash. One for shopt
and one for set
.
The option extglob
belongs to the shopt
list.
Its value may be printed by using either shopt extglob
or shopt -p extglob
.
An option like nounset
belongs to the set
list.
Its value may be printed by using shopt -op nounset
or shopt -o nounset
.
Check one option.
To print an specific option (without changing it) for shopt, use shopt -p name
:
$ shopt -p xpg_echo
shopt -u xpg_echo
And for set
, use: shopt -po name
(yes, you may use shopt -op
for set
list).
$ shopt -po xtrace
set +o xtrace
List options.
To list all options from shopt, use shopt
(or reusable shopt -p
).
Also shopt -s
or shopt -u
could be used.
The way to list all options to set
is with set -o
(related: set +o
).
Or: shopt -o
is equivalent to set -o
and shopt -op
is to set +o
.
Manual
From LESS=+/'^ *shopt \[' man bash
:
With no options, or with the -p option, a list of all settable options is displayed, If either -s or -u is used with no optname arguments, the display is limited to those options which are set or unset, respectively.
From LESS=+/'^ *set \[' man bash
:
If -o is supplied with no option-name, the values of the current options are printed. If +o is supplied with no option-name, a series of set commands to recreate the current option settings is displayed on the standard output.
Examples
$ set -o
allexport off
braceexpand on
emacs on
errexit off
errtrace off
functrace off
hashall on
histexpand on
history on
ignoreeof off
interactive-comments on
keyword off
monitor on
noclobber off
noexec off
noglob off
nolog off
notify off
nounset off
onecmd off
physical off
pipefail off
posix off
privileged off
verbose off
vi off
xtrace off
And
$ shopt -sp
shopt -s checkwinsize
shopt -s cmdhist
shopt -s expand_aliases
shopt -s extglob
shopt -s extquote
shopt -s force_fignore
shopt -s histappend
shopt -s histverify
shopt -s interactive_comments
shopt -s progcomp
shopt -s promptvars
shopt -s sourcepath
It is worth mentioning about shopt -op
which actually lists set
options:
$ shopt -op
set +o allexport
set -o braceexpand
set -o emacs
set +o errexit
set +o errtrace
set +o functrace
set -o hashall
set -o histexpand
set -o history
set +o ignoreeof
set -o interactive-comments
set +o keyword
set -o monitor
set +o noclobber
set +o noexec
set +o noglob
set +o nolog
set +o notify
set +o nounset
set +o onecmd
set +o physical
set +o pipefail
set +o posix
set +o privileged
set +o verbose
set +o vi
set +o xtrace