Bash Guide for Beginners
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Chapter 3. The Bash environment
- Table of Contents
- 3.1. Shell initialization files
- 3.1.1. System-wide configuration files
- 3.1.2. Individual user configuration files
- 3.1.3. Changing shell configuration files
- 3.2. Variables
- 3.2.1. Types of variables
- 3.2.2. Creating variables
- 3.2.3. Exporting variables
- 3.2.4. Reserved variables
- 3.2.5. Special parameters
- 3.2.6. Script recycling with variables
- 3.3. Quoting characters
- 3.3.1. Why?
- 3.3.2. Escape characters
- 3.3.3. Single quotes
- 3.3.4. Double quotes
- 3.3.5. ANSI-C quoting
- 3.3.6. Locales
- 3.4. Shell expansion
- 3.4.1. General
- 3.4.2. Brace expansion
- 3.4.3. Tilde expansion
- 3.4.4. Shell parameter and variable expansion
- 3.4.5. Command substitution
- 3.4.6. Arithmetic expansion
- 3.4.7. Process substitution
- 3.4.8. Word splitting
- 3.4.9. File name expansion
- 3.5. Aliases
- 3.5.1. What are aliases?
- 3.5.2. Creating and removing aliases
- 3.6. More Bash options
- 3.6.1. Displaying options
- 3.6.2. Changing options
- 3.7. Summary
- 3.8. Exercises
In this chapter we will discuss the various ways in which the Bash
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