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Carl, JP, and Cameron are happy to bring you this resource for bash users of all backgrounds. Here you can find on-line resources for bash and related topics, as well as information about our new book, "bash Cookbook", part of the O'Reilly cookbook series.

The bash shell is powerful software for Linux, Unix, and other systems. It comes as a standard part of most Linux distributions ("distros") and most Unix systems. You can even get versions that will run on MS-Windows systems (see cygwin). It is the "command line interpreter" that you get when you bring up a terminal window like Konsole.

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Helpful Documents

New to bash? You might want to try this introduction to bash.

Here are some helpful reference documents (not for beginners) dealing with bash:

Topic Available Formats
bash man page html pdf ps
bash reference manual html pdf ps
readline html
bash technical FAQ text
bash - short intro text
bash installation info text
bash version news text
bash version changes text
bash version compatibility text
bash platform-specific notes text
builtins ps
posix - bash posix mode text
rbash - a restricted bash text
manual for GNU history library html pdf ps