Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition

Table of Contents

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Preface
bash Versions
Summary of bash Features
Intended Audience
Code Examples
Chapter Summary
Conventions Used in This Handbook
We'd Like to Hear from You
Using Code Examples
Safari Enabled
Acknowledgments for the First Edition
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
1. bash Basics
1.1. What Is a Shell?
1.2. Scope of This Book
1.3. History of UNIX Shells
1.3.1. The Bourne Again Shell
1.3.2. Features of bash
1.4. Getting bash
1.5. Interactive Shell Use
1.5.1. Commands, Arguments, and Options
1.6. Files
1.6.1. Directories
1.6.2. Filenames, Wildcards, and Pathname Expansion
1.6.3. Brace Expansion
1.7. Input and Output
1.7.1. Standard I/O
1.7.2. I/O Redirection
1.7.3. Pipelines
1.8. Background Jobs
1.8.1. Background I/O
1.8.2. Background Jobs and Priorities
1.9. Special Characters and Quoting
1.9.1. Quoting
1.9.2. Backslash-Escaping
1.9.3. Quoting Quotation Marks
1.9.4. Continuing Lines
1.9.5. Control Keys
1.10. Help
2. Command-Line Editing
2.1. Enabling Command-Line Editing
2.2. The History List
2.3. emacs Editing Mode
2.3.1. Basic Commands
2.3.2. Word Commands
2.3.3. Line Commands
2.3.4. Moving Around in the History List
2.3.5. Textual Completion
2.3.6. Miscellaneous Commands
2.4. vi Editing Mode
2.4.1. Simple Control Mode Commands
2.4.2. Entering and Changing Text
2.4.3. Deletion Commands
2.4.4. Moving Around in the History List
2.4.5. Character-Finding Commands
2.4.6. Textual Completion
2.4.7. Miscellaneous Commands
2.5. The fc Command
2.6. History Expansion
2.7. readline
2.7.1. The readline Startup File
2.7.2. Key Bindings Using bind
2.8. Keyboard Habits
3. Customizing Your Environment
3.1. The .bash_profile, .bash_logout, and .bashrc Files
3.2. Aliases
3.3. Options
3.3.1. shopt
3.4. Shell Variables
3.4.1. Variables and Quoting
3.4.2. Built-In Variables
3.5. Customization and Subprocesses
3.5.1. Environment Variables
3.5.2. The Environment File
3.6. Customization Hints
4. Basic Shell Programming
4.1. Shell Scripts and Functions
4.1.1. Functions
4.2. Shell Variables
4.2.1. Positional Parameters
4.2.2. Local Variables in Functions
4.2.3. Quoting with $@ and $*
4.2.4. More on Variable Syntax
4.3. String Operators
4.3.1. Syntax of String Operators
4.3.2. Patterns and Pattern Matching
4.3.3. Length Operator
4.3.4. Extended Pattern Matching
4.4. Command Substitution
4.5. Advanced Examples: pushd and popd
5. Flow Control
5.1. if/else
5.1.1. Exit Status
5.1.2. Return
5.1.3. Combinations of Exit Statuses
5.1.4. Condition Tests
5.1.5. Integer Conditionals
5.2. for
5.3. case
5.4. select
5.5. while and until
6. Command-Line Options and Typed Variables
6.1. Command-Line Options
6.1.1. shift
6.1.2. Options with Arguments
6.1.3. getopts
6.2. Typed Variables
6.3. Integer Variables and Arithmetic
6.3.1. Arithmetic Conditionals
6.3.2. Arithmetic Variables and Assignment
6.3.3. Arithmetic for Loops
6.4. Arrays
7. Input/Output and Command-Line Processing
7.1. I/O Redirectors
7.1.1. Here-documents
7.1.2. File Descriptors
7.2. String I/O
7.2.1. echo
7.2.2. printf
7.2.3. read
7.3. Command-Line Processing
7.3.1. Quoting
7.3.2. command, builtin, and enable
7.3.3. eval
8. Process Handling
8.1. Process IDs and Job Numbers
8.2. Job Control
8.2.1. Foreground and Background
8.2.2. Suspending a Job
8.3. Signals
8.3.1. Control-Key Signals
8.3.2. kill
8.3.3. ps
8.4. trap
8.4.1. Traps and Functions
8.4.2. Process ID Variables and Temporary Files
8.4.3. Ignoring Signals
8.4.4. disown
8.4.5. Resetting Traps
8.5. Coroutines
8.5.1. wait
8.5.2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Coroutines
8.5.3. Parallelization
8.6. Subshells
8.6.1. Subshell Inheritance
8.6.2. Nested Subshells
8.7. Process Substitution
9. Debugging Shell Programs
9.1. Basic Debugging Aids
9.1.1. Set Options
9.1.2. Fake Signals
9.1.3. Debugging Variables
9.2. A bash Debugger
9.2.1. Structure of the Debugger
9.2.2. The Preamble
9.2.3. Debugger Functions
9.2.4. A Sample bashdb Session
9.2.5. Exercises
10. bash Administration
10.1. Installing bash as the Standard Shell
10.1.1. POSIX Mode
10.1.2. Command-Line Options
10.2. Environment Customization
10.2.1. umask
10.2.2. ulimit
10.2.3. Types of Global Customization
10.3. System Security Features
10.3.1. Restricted Shell
10.3.2. A System Break-In Scenario
10.3.3. Privileged Mode
11. Shell Scripting
11.1. What's That Do?
11.1.1. Comments
11.1.2. Variables and Constants
11.2. Starting Up
11.3. Potential Problems
11.4. Don't Use bash
12. bash for Your System
12.1. Obtaining bash
12.2. Unpacking the Archive
12.3. What's in the Archive
12.3.1. Documentation
12.3.2. Configuring and Building bash
12.3.3. Testing bash
12.3.4. Potential Problems
12.3.5. Installing bash as a Login Shell
12.3.6. Examples
12.4. Who Do I Turn to?
12.4.1. Asking Questions
12.4.2. Reporting Bugs
A. Related Shells
A.1. The Bourne Shell
A.2. The IEEE 1003.2 POSIX Shell Standard
A.3. The Korn Shell
A.4. pdksh
A.5. zsh
A.6. Shell Clones and Unix-like Platforms
A.6.1. Cygwin
A.6.2. DJGPP
A.6.3. MKS Toolkit
A.6.4. AT&T UWIN
B. Reference Lists
B.1. Invocation
B.2. Prompt String Customizations
B.3. Built-In Commands and Reserved Words
B.4. Built-In Shell Variables
B.5. Test Operators
B.6. set Options
B.7. shopt Options
B.8. I/O Redirection
B.9. emacs Mode Commands
B.10. vi Control Mode Commands
C. Loadable Built-Ins
D. Programmable Completion
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