Learning the bash Shell
Learning the bash Shell, Second Edition By Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt
January 1998
Pages: 336

| Table of Contents | Index | 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 File

    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 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. Workalikes on PC Platforms

  2. Appendix B Reference Lists

    1. Invocation

    2. Built-In Commands and Reserved Words

    3. Environment Variables

    4. Test Operators

    5. set Options

    6. shopt Options

    7. I/O Redirection

    8. emacs Mode Commands

    9. vi Control Mode Commands

  3. Appendix C Loadable Built-Ins

  4. Appendix D Syntax

    1. Reserved Words

    2. BNF for bash

  5. Appendix E Obtaining Sample Programs

    1. FTP

    2. FTPMAIL

  6. Colophon

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