 | by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox Paperback (6"x9"), 204 pages. Revised October 2006. |
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This book has received a top-rated review in Linux User and Developer Magazine:"An essential resource .... the most detailed coverage available for all aspects of Bash" --- Linux User and Developer Magazine (Issue 37, Mar 2004)
About the Book
This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. It covers the current major release of Bash (v3.2, revised printing November 2006).
GNU Bash is a complete implementation of the POSIX.2 Bourne shell specification (/bin/sh), with additional features from the C-shell (csh) and Korn shell (ksh).
The authors of this manual, Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, are the original developers of GNU Bash.
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