Bash Pocket Reference: Help for Power Users and Sys Admins

by Arnold Robbins

It's simple: if you want to interact deeply with Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, you need to know how to work with the Bash shell. This concise little book puts all of the essential information about Bash right at your fingertips.

You'll quickly find answers to the annoying questions that generally come up when you're writing shell scripts: What characters do you need to quote? How do you get variable substitution to do exactly what you want? How do you use arrays? Updated for Bash version 4.4, this book has the answers to these and other problems in a format that makes browsing quick and easy.

Topics include:


Invoking the shell
Syntax
Functions and variables
Arithmetic expressions
Command history
Programmable completion
Job control
Shell options
Command execution
Coprocesses
Restricted shells
Built-in commands

Genres: Reference, Programming, Technical, Technology, Computer Science, Nonfiction, Computers

156 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2010

Reviews

[Samichtime]

It's a handy book, one of the few cases I prefer the paperback. Seventeen chapters was a little overkill, I feel like three could've gotten the job done. One on creating things, one on modifying things, and one on deleting things. 4.5 stars.


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[mice]

A good reference, but it'd benefit from more examples (for command & param usage)

[Kerszi]

Bardzo dobry podręcznik, po który można często sięgać. Wszystko co trzeba jeszcze dobrze opisane, funkcje wbudowane, warunki. Po tej książce spokojnie możesz programowac w Bashu.

[Cynbel]

Great reference for those bash commands you don't always remember.

[Brett Taylor]

A great reference, but really only a reference. Read "Learning the bash Shell" first :)

[Hugh Rawlinson]

A great reference for the bash shell, I learned lots!

[Searge Boremchuk]

A good book with well-structured and systematic information. Many nuances are explained in a very accessible way.

Probably the best book to start in BASH programming and as a daily reference.