A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Second Edition

Chapter 7. The Shell I

IN THIS CHAPTER
The Command Line
Processing the Command Line
Standard Input and Standard Output
Redirecting Standard Output
Redirecting Standard Input
Pipes
Filters
Running a Program in the Background
Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion
Builtins

This chapter takes a look at the Bourne Again Shell (bash) and explains how to use some of its features. The chapter discusses command line syntax and how the shell processes a command line and initiates execution of a program. The chapter shows how to redirect input to and output from a command, construct pipes and filters on the command line, and run a command as a background task. The final section covers filename expansion and explains how you can use this feature in your ...