A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux®: Fedora™ Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Third Edition

Chapter 7. The Shell

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IN THIS CHAPTER

The Command Line	202
Standard Input and Standard Output	208
Redirection	210
Pipes	216
Running a Program in the Background	219
kill: Aborting a Background Job	220
Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion	221
Builtins	225

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This chapter takes a close look at the shell and explains how to use some of its features. For example, it discusses command line syntax and also describes how the shell processes a command line and initiates execution of a program. The chapter also explains how to redirect input to and output from a command, construct pipes and filters on the command line, and run a command in the background. The final section covers filename expansion and explains how you can use this feature in your everyday ...