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bash Quick Reference
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bash Quick Reference

by Arnold Robbins
June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
64 pages
2h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Resources

This section briefly describes other sources of information about Bash.

Online Resources

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash

The top-level directory for Bash source code releases. Source code is usually made available as .tar.gz files, such as bash-3.1.tar.gz.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.1-patches

Patches for Bash 3.1 are in this directory.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.htmlhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html

The two "home pages" for the Bash shell.

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net

The Bash debugger.

Books

  1. Classic Shell Scripting, by Arnold Robbins and Nelson H.F. Beebe. O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2005. ISBN 0-596-00595-4.

  2. Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition, by Cameron Newham. O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2005. ISBN 0-596-00965-8.

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