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Learning the Bash Shell, Third Edition, is a comprehensive manual for users and administrators of the Free Software Foundation’s Bourne‑Again Shell. It explains how to employ Bash’s powerful command‑line features—history, editing, completion—and introduces essential shell‑programming concepts such as flow control, signal handling, command‑line processing and I/O. The book also provides a debugger, development tips for maintainable scripts, and guidance on installing, configuring and customizing Bash across Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and other UNIX platforms.
First publish date: March 29, 2005
Genre: Technology & Computing/Programming
Authors: Cameron Newham
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