Gnu Bash Reference Manual

by Chet Ramey, Brian Fox

This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. GNU Bash is a complete implementation of the POSIX2 shell specification (/bin/sh), with additional features from the C-shell (csh) and Korn shell (ksh). Most Bourne shell scripts can be run by Bash without modification. GNU Bash is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on GNU (GNU/Linux) and Unix systems. Versions are also available for Microsoft Windows. This book is a printed copy of the official GNU Bash Reference Manual, version 3.2 (updated November 2006). For each copy sold, $1 will be donated to the Free Software Foundation. About the Chet Ramey and Brian Fox are the original developers of GNU Bash.

Genres: Computer Science

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Silviu Muraru · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read. Even though you would have years of dealing with Bash-related feature implementation, debugging, working with shell, subshells, etc. (I had 5 when I began reading it) - this book has a lot of tricks for you to study and expand on your skills. What I recommend is to take notes and also to have ChatGPT or some other code-focused LLM at disposal, to be able to see some code examples at times, as not everything can be visualized in the mind, or to simply explain the features you just read about.