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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Bash and Korn
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
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-c Remove all entries from (clear) the directory stack.
-l Produce a longer listing, one that does not replace $HOME
with ~.
-p Print the directory stack, one entry per line.
-v Print the directory stack, one entry per line, with each entry
preceded by its index in the stack.
disown
disown [-ahr] [job ...]
Bash version. Remove job from the list of jobs managed by Bash.
Options
-a Remove all jobs. With -h, mark all jobs.
-h Instead of removing jobs from the list of known jobs, mark
them to not receive SIGHUP when Bash exits.
-r With no jobs, remove (or mark) only running jobs.
disown
disown [job ...]
ksh93 version. When a login shell exits, do not send a SIGHUP to
the given jobs. If no jobs are listed, no background jobs will receive
SIGHUP.
do
do
Reserved word that precedes the command sequence in a for,
while, until, or select statement.
done
done
Reserved word that ends a for, while, until, or select statement.
echo
echo [-eEn] [string]
Bash version, built into the shell. Write string to standard output.
(See also echo in Chapter 3.)
Options
-e Enable interpretation of the following escape sequences,
which must be quoted (or escaped with a \) to prevent inter-
pretation by the shell:
\a Alert (ASCII BEL).
\b Backspace.
\c Suppress the terminating newline (same as -n).
\e ASCII Escape ...
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