bash Pocket Reference

Resources

This section briefly describes other sources of information about Bash.

Online Resources

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash

The top-level directory for Bash source code releases. Source code is usually made available as .tar.gz files, such as bash-4.1.tar.gz.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.1-patches

Patches for Bash 4.1 are in this directory.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.htmlhttp://tiswww.tis.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html

The two “home pages” for the Bash shell.

http://bashdb.sourceforge.net

The Bash debugger.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashcompletion

Ian Macdonald’s collected set of completion specifications.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399

The online version of the POSIX standard.

Books

Newham, Cameron. Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, 2005.

Robbins, Arnold, and Nelson H.F. Beebe. Classic Shell Scripting. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media, 2005.