Documentation

The doc directory contains a few articles that are worth reading. Indeed, it would be well worth printing out the manual entry for bash so you can use it in conjunction with this book. The README file gives a short summary of the files.

The document you'll most often use is the manual page entry (bash.1). The file is in troff format—that used by the manual pages. You can read it by processing it with the text-formatter nroff and piping the output to a pager utility: nroff -man bash.1 | more should do the trick. You can also print it off by piping it to the lineprinter (lp). This summarizes all of the facilities your version of bash has and is the most up-to-date reference you can get. This document is also available through the man facility once you've installed the package, but sometimes it's nice to have a hard copy so you can write notes all over it.

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Of the other documents, FAQ is a Frequently Asked Questions document with answers, readline.3 is the manual entry for the readline facility, and article.ms is an article about the shell that appeared in Linux Journal, by the current bash maintainer, Chet Ramey.