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This book takes you through knowledge essential to a mastery of bash. It is divided into four parts:

1) Core Bash

Core foundational concepts essential for understanding bash on the command line.

Areas covered:

globbing
variables
functions
pipes and redirects
scripts and startup

2) Bash Scripting

Gets your bash scripting skills up to scratch.

Covers:

command substitution
tests
loops
exit codes

3) Tips and techniques

A primer on commonly-used techniques and features that are useful to know about.

Covers:

the prompts
here docs
history
shortcuts

4) Advanced Bash

Building on the first three chapters, and introducing some more advanced features, this chapters takes your bash skills beyond the norm.

signals and traps
debugging
string manipulation
a real-world application

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