Bash String Manipulations Issue 18. "Linux Gazette...making Linux just a little more fun!
" bash String Manipulations By Jim Dennis, jimd@starshine.org. Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. Bash Reference Manual. 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).
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).