Further Explorations

This chapter’s aim was to give you enough knowledge of how the shell works to successfully execute the commands that are covered through the rest of the book. However, this chapter has just scratched the surface of what is possible with the shell.

The following books are recommended to help you learn more about the subjects in this chapter:

  • Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition, by Cameron Newham (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005)

  • Learning the vi Editor, Sixth Edition, by Linda Lamb, et al. (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1998)

  • Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition, by Debra Cameron, et al. (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2004)

You might also want to take a look at some of the following manpages:

  • man

  • apropos

  • ls

  • mkdir

  • rmdir

  • cd

  • rm

  • mv

  • cp

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