Table of contents

• Cover
• What is a shell
• Variables
• Shell Grammar
  • Quoting
  • Pipelines
  • Lists
  • if (simple)
  • if (complete)
  • test (test)
  • test (expr)
  • case
  • for
  • while
  • functions
  • Special Variables
• Expansion
  • Brace Expansion
  • Tilde Expansion
  • Parameter Expansion
  • Command Substitution
  • Arithmetic Expansion
  • Word Splitting
  • Pathname Expansion
• Redirection
• Aliases
• Environment
• Exit Status
• Job Control
• Examples
  • Using Command Line Arguments
  • Using Command Line Arguments (getopts)
  • Using temporary files
• Useful Readings
• Table of contents