Bash Reference Manual

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Bash Reference Manual

Table of Contents

    Bash Features
    1 Introduction
        1.1 What is Bash?
        1.2 What is a shell? 
    2 Definitions
    3 Basic Shell Features
        3.1 Shell Syntax
            3.1.1 Shell Operation
            3.1.2 Quoting
                3.1.2.1 Escape Character
                3.1.2.2 Single Quotes
                3.1.2.3 Double Quotes
                3.1.2.4 ANSI-C Quoting
                3.1.2.5 Locale-Specific Translation 
            3.1.3 Comments 
        3.2 Shell Commands
            3.2.1 Simple Commands
            3.2.2 Pipelines
            3.2.3 Lists of Commands
            3.2.4 Compound Commands
                3.2.4.1 Looping Constructs
                3.2.4.2 Conditional Constructs
                3.2.4.3 Grouping Commands 
            3.2.5 Coprocesses 
        3.3 Shell Functions
        3.4 Shell Parameters
            3.4.1 Positional Parameters
            3.4.2 Special Parameters 
        3.5 Shell Expansions
            3.5.1 Brace Expansion
            3.5.2 Tilde Expansion
            3.5.3 Shell Parameter Expansion
            3.5.4 Command Substitution
            3.5.5 Arithmetic Expansion
            3.5.6 Process Substitution
            3.5.7 Word Splitting
            3.5.8 Filename Expansion
                3.5.8.1 Pattern Matching 
            3.5.9 Quote Removal 
        3.6 Redirections
            3.6.1 Redirecting Input
            3.6.2 Redirecting Output
            3.6.3 Appending Redirected Output
            3.6.4 Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error
            3.6.5 Appending Standard Output and Standard Error
            3.6.6 Here Documents
            3.6.7 Here Strings
            3.6.8 Duplicating File Descriptors
            3.6.9 Moving File Descriptors
            3.6.10 Opening File Descriptors for Reading and Writing 
        3.7 Executing Commands
            3.7.1 Simple Command Expansion
            3.7.2 Command Search and Execution
            3.7.3 Command Execution Environment
            3.7.4 Environment
            3.7.5 Exit Status
            3.7.6 Signals 
        3.8 Shell Scripts 
    4 Shell Builtin Commands
        4.1 Bourne Shell Builtins
        4.2 Bash Builtin Commands
        4.3 Modifying Shell Behavior
            4.3.1 The Set Builtin
            4.3.2 The Shopt Builtin 
        4.4 Special Builtins 
    5 Shell Variables
        5.1 Bourne Shell Variables
        5.2 Bash Variables 
    6 Bash Features
        6.1 Invoking Bash
        6.2 Bash Startup Files
        6.3 Interactive Shells
            6.3.1 What is an Interactive Shell?
            6.3.2 Is this Shell Interactive?
            6.3.3 Interactive Shell Behavior 
        6.4 Bash Conditional Expressions
        6.5 Shell Arithmetic
        6.6 Aliases
        6.7 Arrays
        6.8 The Directory Stack
            6.8.1 Directory Stack Builtins 
        6.9 Controlling the Prompt
        6.10 The Restricted Shell
        6.11 Bash POSIX Mode 
    7 Job Control
        7.1 Job Control Basics
        7.2 Job Control Builtins
        7.3 Job Control Variables 
    8 Command Line Editing
        8.1 Introduction to Line Editing
        8.2 Readline Interaction
            8.2.1 Readline Bare Essentials
            8.2.2 Readline Movement Commands
            8.2.3 Readline Killing Commands
            8.2.4 Readline Arguments
            8.2.5 Searching for Commands in the History 
        8.3 Readline Init File
            8.3.1 Readline Init File Syntax
            8.3.2 Conditional Init Constructs
            8.3.3 Sample Init File 
        8.4 Bindable Readline Commands
            8.4.1 Commands For Moving
            8.4.2 Commands For Manipulating The History
            8.4.3 Commands For Changing Text
            8.4.4 Killing And Yanking
            8.4.5 Specifying Numeric Arguments
            8.4.6 Letting Readline Type For You
            8.4.7 Keyboard Macros
            8.4.8 Some Miscellaneous Commands 
        8.5 Readline vi Mode
        8.6 Programmable Completion
        8.7 Programmable Completion Builtins 
    9 Using History Interactively
        9.1 Bash History Facilities
        9.2 Bash History Builtins
        9.3 History Expansion
            9.3.1 Event Designators
            9.3.2 Word Designators
            9.3.3 Modifiers 
    10 Installing Bash
        10.1 Basic Installation
        10.2 Compilers and Options
        10.3 Compiling For Multiple Architectures
        10.4 Installation Names
        10.5 Specifying the System Type
        10.6 Sharing Defaults
        10.7 Operation Controls
        10.8 Optional Features 
    Appendix A Reporting Bugs
    Appendix B Major Differences From The Bourne Shell
        B.1 Implementation Differences From The SVR4.2 Shell 
    Appendix C GNU Free Documentation License
    Appendix D Indexes
        D.1 Index of Shell Builtin Commands
        D.2 Index of Shell Reserved Words
        D.3 Parameter and Variable Index
        D.4 Function Index
        D.5 Concept Index 

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