Learning the bash Shell
Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition Unix Shell Programming By Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt
March 2005
Pages: 352

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 bash Basics

    1. What Is a Shell?

    2. Scope of This Book

    3. History of UNIX Shells

    4. Getting bash

    5. Interactive Shell Use

    6. Files

    7. Input and Output

    8. Background Jobs

    9. Special Characters and Quoting

    10. Help

  2. Chapter 2 Command-Line Editing

    1. Enabling Command-Line Editing

    2. The History List

    3. emacs Editing Mode

    4. vi Editing Mode

    5. The fc Command

    6. History Expansion

    7. readline

    8. Keyboard Habits

  3. Chapter 3 Customizing Your Environment

    1. The .bash_profile, .bash_logout, and .bashrc Files

    2. Aliases

    3. Options

    4. Shell Variables

    5. Customization and Subprocesses

    6. Customization Hints

  4. Chapter 4 Basic Shell Programming

    1. Shell Scripts and Functions

    2. Shell Variables

    3. String Operators

    4. Command Substitution

    5. Advanced Examples: pushd and popd

  5. Chapter 5 Flow Control

    1. if/else

    2. for

    3. case

    4. select

    5. while and until

  6. Chapter 6 Command-Line Options and Typed Variables

    1. Command-Line Options

    2. Typed Variables

    3. Integer Variables and Arithmetic

    4. Arrays

  7. Chapter 7 Input/Output and Command-Line Processing

    1. I/O Redirectors

    2. String I/O

    3. Command-Line Processing

  8. Chapter 8 Process Handling

    1. Process IDs and Job Numbers

    2. Job Control

    3. Signals

    4. trap

    5. Coroutines

    6. Subshells

    7. Process Substitution

  9. Chapter 9 Debugging Shell Programs

    1. Basic Debugging Aids

    2. A bash Debugger

  10. Chapter 10 bash Administration

    1. Installing bash as the Standard Shell

    2. Environment Customization

    3. System Security Features

  11. Chapter 11 Shell Scripting

    1. What's That Do?

    2. Starting Up

    3. Potential Problems

    4. Don't Use bash

  12. Chapter 12 bash for Your System

    1. Obtaining bash

    2. Unpacking the Archive

    3. What's in the Archive

    4. Who Do I Turn to?

  1. Appendix A Related Shells

    1. The Bourne Shell

    2. The IEEE 1003.2 POSIX Shell Standard

    3. The Korn Shell

    4. pdksh

    5. zsh

    6. Shell Clones and Unix-like Platforms

  2. Appendix B Reference Lists

    1. Invocation

    2. Prompt String Customizations

    3. Built-In Commands and Reserved Words

    4. Built-In Shell Variables

    5. Test Operators

    6. set Options

    7. shopt Options

    8. I/O Redirection

    9. emacs Mode Commands

    10. vi Control Mode Commands

  3. Appendix C Loadable Built-Ins

  4. Appendix D Programmable Completion

  5. Colophon

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