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Bash Shell Scripting
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Wikibooks Contributors Present:Bash Shell Scripting
An introductory look to Bash
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Currently this book provides an introductory level knowledge of Bash. Go to External Programs, External links and Using man, info and help for further directions and inspirations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
About Bash
History
Prerequisites
How to read the book?
A few notes on terminology
Some notes on your shell
Beginning Bash
Intro Exercise
Simple Commands
Exit Status
Variables
Input-Output
Positional Parameters
Conditional Expressions
Loops
Shell Functions
Environment
More to Bash
Pipelines and Substitution
Shell Arithmetic
External Programs
Whiptail
Index of Symbols
See also
Images with BASH src code
Related Wikibooks
A Quick Introduction to Unix often involves the Bash shell.
Guide to Unix often involves the Bash shell.
The Android/Terminal IDE uses Bash as its default command shell.
Mac OS X Tiger/A Quick Look Under the Hood uses Bash as its default command shell.
Shell Programming
Bourne Shell Scripting - Bash is almost Bourne-Shell compatible.
External links
Bash Reference Manual − gnu.org
GNU Bash Reference Manual for Bash 3.2 − network-theory.co.uk
"Section - What does {some strange unix command name} stand for?"
Wooledge BashGuide
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, by Mendel Cooper
Scripting languages
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