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Tips (Efficiency) Features. Introduction. Next Previous Contents BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO by Mike G mikkey at dynamo.com.ar Thu Jul 27 09:36:18 ART 2000 This article intends to help you to start programming basic-intermediate shell scripts.

Introduction

Advanced. Reference. Table of Contents This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the Bash shell (version 5.0, 12 May 2019).

Reference

The Bash home page is This is Edition 5.0, last updated 12 May 2019, of The GNU Bash Reference Manual, for Bash, Version 5.0. Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some features that only appear in Bash. Some of the shells that Bash has borrowed concepts from are the Bourne Shell (sh), the Korn Shell (ksh), and the C-shell (csh and its successor, tcsh). Context. This document is also available in LaTeX2e and gzipped PostScript formats. The slides that accompanied the original talk are also available in LaTeX2e and gzipped PostScript formats.

Note: I've noticed that a few university courses' web pages link to this one. I'm glad that people are finding it useful. Just don't ask me to do your homework.