Linux in a Nutshell

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b command (sed)

backups

     magnetic tape drive

     performing with dump command

bad blocks

     checking MS-DOS filesystems for

bad login attempts, displaying

badblocks command

banner command

basename command

bash (Bourne-Again shell) 2nd 3rd

     arithmetic expressions

     built-in commands

     command execution

     command history

         programmable completion

     features

bash (continued)

     functions

     invoking

         arguments

         common options

     job control

     setting restrictions on

     syntax

         command forms

         filename metacharacters

         quoting

         redirection

         startup files

     variables

         arrays

         built-in

         other

         special prompt strings

batch command

bc program

     examples

     function keywords

     identifiers

     input-output keywords

     math library functions

     operators and symbols

     statement keywords

bdelete command (ex)

bell command (ftp)

Berkeley C shell (csh)

bg command 2nd

biff command

binary command (ftp)

binary files, encoding in ASCII (uuencode)

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)

bind command (bash)

BIND DNS server, sending commands to via TCP

binder process, NIS (ypbind)

bindtextdomain function (gawk)

biod daemon

bison command

blame command (svn)

blank character class

block files

blocklist command (GRUB)

blocks

     bad, checking MS-DOS filesystems for

     bad, searching device for

     printing information about with dumpe2fs

Boleyn, Erich

bookmark command (lftp)

boot command (GRUB)

boot loaders 2nd

     chainloaders

     GRUB

     init command, running

     LILO

boot methods 2nd

boot process

boot sector

boot-time kernel options

booting, reboot command

bootp command (GRUB)

Bourne shell

branches, development 2nd

     efficient branching with Subversion

branching commands (sed)

break command

     awk

broadcast messaging (wall)

BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), ix

     license for Linux tools

     system and network administration tools

buffer command (ex)

buffers

     Emacs

         commands for

     Emacs, beginning and end of

buffers command (ex)

builtin command

     bash

     ksh

bye command (ftp)

bzcmp command

bzdiff command

bzgrep command

bzip2 command

bzless command

bzmore command