December 2025
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
15h 22m
English
Content preview from Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, 5th Edition
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Index
A
- absolute directory references, 44–45
- access control lists (ACLs), 158–159
a(append) command, 466–467, 649–650- Activities menu, GNOME, 11
addarrayfunction, 412addemfunction, 406–407- add-in modules, zsh, 574–575
aliascommand, 109–111alloccommand, 602- ampersand symbol (
&), 512–513 anacronprogram, 393–394- anchor characters, 482–484
- append (
a) command, 466–467 - applets, KDE, 11
- application containers, 194–198
aptcommand and APT tool, 182–189arraydblrfunction, 413- array variables, 134–135, 411–413, 535–538, 603, 619–620
- assignment statement, 534, 655
- associative arrays, 535–538, 619–620
- asterisk, 478, 489–491
atcommand, 387–391atqcommand, 390–391autoloadcommand, 581
B
- background mode, 101–102, 377–380
- backslash (
\), 481 basenamecommand, 322- Bash calculator (
bc), 248–252 bashcommand, 96–98- .
bashrcfile, 395, 417–419 - Bash shell, signaling, 369–370
- Bash shell commands, 37–91, 231–232, 633–645
bc(Bash calculator), 248–252b(branch) command, 509–511BEGINkeyword, 457–459, 653–654- beginning of line anchor, 482–483
bgcommand, 384bindkeycommand, 602- blank lines, 517–518, 521–523
- block device file, 6
- Bookmarks menu, Konsole, 32–33
- braces,
EREpattern, 493–494 - brackets, 247–248, 287–288
- branch (
b) command, 509–511 breakcommand, 310–313BRE(POSIX Basic Regular Expression) patterns, 479–491- broken dependencies, 193
- BSD-style parameters, 72–74
- Btrfs filesystem, 165
- buffers, in Emacs, 215–217
- built-in commands, 106–111, 571–576, 600–602, 622–625, 633–636
- built-in ...
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