Index
Symbols
- ! (shell command history), Command history
- $(), Quoting
- & (ampersand), running background jobs, Shell Job Control
- && (two ampersands), logical and, stopping execution of combined commands, Combining commands
- - (dash), standard input/output, Reading This Book
- -- (two dashes), end of options, Reading This Book
- --help option, Getting Help
- . (period)
- current directory, The Filesystem
- dot files, Wildcards
- shell script execution, Creating and Running Shell Scripts
- .. (two periods), parent directory, The Filesystem
- .NET, Beyond Shell Scripting
- / (slash), root directory, The Filesystem
- ; (semicolon), combine commands using, Combining commands
- < (input redirection), Input/output redirection
- <() (process substitution), Process substitution
- > (output redirection), Input/output redirection
- [ (left square bracket), alias for test command, test and “[”
- \ (backward slash)
- escaping special characters, Escaping
- line continuation, Long command lines, Whitespace and Linebreaks
- ^C keystroke (killing programs), Killing a Command in Progress
- ^Z keystroke (suspending jobs), Shell Job Control
- | (pipe operator), Pipes
- || (two pipes), logical or, stopping execution of combined commands, Combining commands
- ~ (tilde), denoting home directories, Home Directories
A
- abiword command, File Creation and Editing
- absolute path, The Filesystem
- absolute path of current directory, printing, Directory Operations
- acroread command, PDF and PostScript File Handling
- administrator, Shell prompts
- alias command, Aliases
- alphabetical order, sorting ...
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