Bash In Depth

This page contains chapters on various topics in Bash.

• Chapter 0: Motivation and Disclaimer
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Pre-Scripting Basics
• Chapter 3: Basics
• Chapter 4: Variables
• Chapter 5: Working with Strings
• Chapter 6: Working with Numbers - Integers
• Chapter 7: Working with Numbers - Floating-point numbers
• Chapter 8: time and date commands
• Chapter 9: Environment Variables
• Chapter 10: if / elif / else statements
• Chapter 11: case-esac statement
• Chapter 12: Arrays and loops
• Chapter 13: Execution of commands
• Chapter 14: List constructs - Combining commands with && and ||
• Chapter 15: Functions
• Chapter 16: Navigation and file/folder related commands
• Chapter 17: The select statement
• Chapter 18: Regular Expressions and Globbing
• Chapter 19: True, False and Null Commands
• Chapter 20: Brace Expansion
• Chapter 21: Block Statements
• Chapter 22: Processes
• Chapter 23: Subshells
• Chapter 24: I/O Redirections
• Chapter 25: Jobs
• Chapter 26: Process Substitution
• Chapter 27: Aliases
• Chapter 28: Here Documents
• Chapter 29: Here Strings
• Chapter 30: Coprocesses
• Chapter 31: Types of Shell & Configuration Files