Learning the bash Shell: Unix Shell Programming (In a Nutshell (OReilly))

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a command, vi

A command, vi

absolute pathname [See full pathname]

album example 2nd

alias command 2nd

aliases 2nd     Bourne shell not supporting

     examples in archive for

     global (not possible)

     order of precedence for     processing on command line     recursive

     wildcards in

ampersand (&)     && (logical and operator) 2nd 3rd     &\\> (output and error redirection)

     bitwise and operator

     running commands in background 2nd

angle brackets [See greater than sign less than sign]

archive file for bash 2nd arguments

     for command-line options

     in for statement list 2nd     positional parameters for

arithmetic (integer) variables

     assignment     declaring 2nd arithmetic conditionals arithmetic expressions

     associativity in

     evaluation of

     precedence in

     syntax for

arithmetic for statement 2nd

arithmetic operators 2nd

arrays

     assigning to themselves (bug)

     assigning values to

     associative, Korn

     declaring

     declaring variables as 2nd

     deleting     deleting elements of     element length operator for

     one-dimensional 2nd

     reading values into     special indices for

arrow keys, emacs 2nd

assignment of arithmetic variables

associative arrays, Korn

asterisk (*)

     ** (exponentiation operator)

     environment variable 2nd 3rd

     extended pattern-matching operator     multiplication operator

     pattern-matching operator

     special array index

     textual completion, vi     wildcard     word designator

at sign (@)

     environment variable 2nd 3rd     extended pattern-matching operator     hostname completion

     special array index

AT&T UWIN package

auto_resume environment variable

awk command