Unix Shell - Using the Bash command line as a working environment

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Bash Basics

• What Is a Shell?
• Scope of This Book
• History of UNIX Shells
• Getting bash
• Interactive Shell Use
• Files
• Input and Output
• Background Jobs
• Special Characters and Quoting
• Help

Chapter 2: Command-Line Editing

• Enabling Command-Line Editing
• The History List
• emacs Editing Mode
• vi Editing Mode
• The fc Command
• History Expansion
• readline
• Keyboard Habits

Chapter 3: Customizing Your Environment

• The .bash_profile, .bash_logout, and bashrc Files
• Aliases
• Options
• Shell Variables
• Customization and Subprocesses
• Customization Hints

Chapter 4: Basic Shell Programming

• Shell Scripts and Functions
• Shell Variables
• String Operators
• Command Substitution
• Advanced Examples: pushd and popd

Chapter 5: Flow Control

• if/else
• for
• case
• select
• while and until

Chapter 6: Command-Line Options and Typed Variables

• Command-Line Options
• Typed Variables
• Integer Variables and Arithmetic
• Arrays

Chapter 7: Input/Output and Command-Line Processing

• I/O Redirectors
• String I/O
• Command-Line Processing

Chapter 8: Process Handling

• Process IDs and Job Numbers
• Job Control
• Signals
• trap
• Coroutines
• Subshells
• Process Substitution

Chapter 9: Debugging Shell Programs

• Basic Debugging Aids
• A bash Debugger

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