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bash Pocket Reference
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bash Pocket Reference

by Arnold Robbins
May 2010
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
130 pages
3h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Overview of Features

The Bash shell provides the following features:

  • Input/output redirection

  • Wildcard characters for filename abbreviation

  • Shell variables and options for customizing the environment

  • A built-in command set for writing shell programs

  • Shell functions, for modularizing tasks within a shell program

  • Job control

  • Command-line editing (using the command syntax of either vi or Emacs)

  • Access to previous commands (command history)

  • Integer arithmetic

  • Arrays and arithmetic expressions

  • Command-name abbreviation (aliasing)

  • Upwards compliance with POSIX

  • Internationalization facilities

  • An arithmetic for loop

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