July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Index
Symbols
{ } (braces)
grouping statements in bc, 62
metacharacter in pattern
matching, 698
sed editor, nesting command
addresses, 758
[ ] (brackets)
[[ ]] command, bash and ksh, 652
array index in bc, 62
enclosing character classes, 699
metacharacter in pattern
matching, 698
optional elements in syntax
descriptions, xiv
\( \) metacharacters, enclosing
subpatterns, 698
( ) (parentheses)
escaped, 155
grouping in regular expression
pattern matching, 699
in bc expressions, 62
shell patterns, 655
" " (quotation marks, double)
metacharacters for pattern matching
and filename expansion, 698
quoting in bash and ksh, 629
' ' (quotation marks, single)
metacharacters for pattern matching
and filename expansion, 698
quoting in bash and ksh, 629
${ … } syntax, referencing arrays, 641
& (ampersand)
&& AND operator, 643, 775
&= assignment operator, 644
AND operator, 643
ex command, 753
metacharacter in replacement
patterns, 699
* (asterisk)
*= assignment operator, 644, 775
** exponentiation operator, 643, 775
metacharacter, 698
multiplication operator, 643, 775
@ (at), ex command, 753
\ (backslash)
escaping metacharacters, 698
quoting in bash and ksh, 629
\", beginning of an Emacs buffer, 699
^ (caret)
^= assignment operator, 644, 775
exclusive OR operator, 643
exponentiation operator, 775
metacharacter in pattern matching ...
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