Bash Features

Overview Documentation for Bash

Edition 1.14, for bash Version 1.14.

August 1994

• Bourne Shell Style Features
  • Looping Constructs
  • Conditional Constructs
  • Shell Functions
  • Bourne Shell Builtins
  • Bourne Shell Variables
  • Other Bourne Shell Features
    • Major Differences from the Bourne Shell
• C-Shell Style Features
  • Tilde Expansion
  • Brace Expansion
  • C Shell Builtins
  • C Shell Variables
• Korn Shell Style Features
  • Korn Shell Constructs
  • Korn Shell Builtins
  • Korn Shell Variables
  • Aliases
    • Alias Builtins
• Bash Specific Features
  • Invoking Bash
  • Bash Startup Files
  • Is This Shell Interactive?
  • Bash Builtin Commands
  • The Set Builtin
  • Bash Variables
  • Shell Arithmetic
    • Arithmetic Evaluation
    • Arithmetic Expansion
    • Arithmetic Builtins
  • Controlling the Prompt
• Job Control
  • Job Control Basics
  • Job Control Builtins
  • Job Control Variables
• Variable Index
• Concept Index