Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X, Fourth Edition

Index

Symbols

& (ampersand)

&& construct, 161–162

background execution of loops, 177

command sequences and, 322

* (asterisk)

with case statement, 155

filename substitution, 24–25, 47, 331

pattern matching, 57–59, 63, 242, 336

` (back quote), 114–115

\ (backslash)

escaping characters with, 111–112

inside double quotes, 112–114

line continuation, 112

overview, 322

[ ] (brackets), 139–140

^ (caret), 53, 63

: (colon)

: (null) command, 160–161, 334

in directories, 218

((.)) construct, 311

(.) construct, 47, 231–234, 332

\(.\) construct, 61–63, 64

\{.\} construct, 59–61, 64

#! construct, 289–290

|| construct, 161–162

$(.) construct, 115–118

[!] construct, 242

[.] construct, 55–57, 242, 336

{ .; } construct, 231–234, 332

>& construct, 261–262

>&- construct, ...