Category:Bash Guide for Beginners

Bash Guide for Beginners - Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Bash and Bash scripts: Why Bash is so good, building blocks, first guidelines on developing good scripts.
• Chapter 2. Writing and debugging scripts: Writing and debugging.
• Chapter 3. The Bash environment: Initialization files, variables, quoting characters, shell expansion order, aliases, options.
• Chapter 4. Regular expressions: Regular expressions: an introduction.
• Chapter 5. The GNU sed stream editor: An introduction to the sed line editor.
• Chapter 6. The GNU awk programming language: Introduction to the awk programming language.
• Chapter 7. Conditional statements: Constructs used in Bash to test conditions.
• Chapter 8. Writing interactive scripts: Making scripts user-friendly, catching user input.
• Chapter 9. Repetitive tasks: Constructs used in Bash to automate command execution.
• Chapter 10. More on variables: Specifying variable types, introduction to arrays of variables, operations on variables.
• Chapter 11. Functions: An introduction.
• Chapter 12. Catching signals: Introduction to process signalling, trapping user-sent signals.

• Appendix A. Shell Features
• Glossary
• Index