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1 Bash Features
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1 This text is a brief description of the features that are present in the
1 Bash shell (version 4.4, 7 September 2016).  The Bash home page is
1 <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/>.
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1    This is Edition 4.4, last updated 7 September 2016, of 'The GNU Bash
1 Reference Manual', for 'Bash', Version 4.4.
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1    Bash contains features that appear in other popular shells, and some
1 features that only appear in Bash.  Some of the shells that Bash has
1 borrowed concepts from are the Bourne Shell ('sh'), the Korn Shell
1 ('ksh'), and the C-shell ('csh' and its successor, 'tcsh').  The
1 following menu breaks the features up into categories, noting which
1 features were inspired by other shells and which are specific to Bash.
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1    This manual is meant as a brief introduction to features found in
1 Bash.  The Bash manual page should be used as the definitive reference
1 on shell behavior.
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Menu

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· Introduction                An introduction to the shell.
· Definitions                 Some definitions used in the rest of this
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· Basic Shell Features        The shell "building blocks".
· Shell Builtin Commands      Commands that are a part of the shell.
· Shell Variables             Variables used or set by Bash.
· Bash Features               Features found only in Bash.
· Job Control                 What job control is and how Bash allows you
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· Command Line Editing        Chapter describing the command line
1 				editing features.
· Using History Interactively Command History Expansion
· Installing Bash             How to build and install Bash on your system.
· Reporting Bugs              How to report bugs in Bash.
· Major Differences From The Bourne Shell     A terse list of the differences
1 						between Bash and historical
1 						versions of /bin/sh.
· GNU Free Documentation License      Copying and sharing this documentation.
· Indexes                     Various indexes for this manual.
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