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Table of Contents
Part 1. Introduction

1. Why Shell Programming?
2. Starting Off With a Sha-Bang

Part 2. Basics

3. Special Characters
4. Introduction to Variables and Parameters
5. Quoting
6. Exit and Exit Status
7. Tests
8. Operations and Related Topics

Part 3. Beyond the Basics

9. Variables Revisited
10. Loops and Branches
11. Command Substitution
12. Arithmetic Expansion
13. Recess Time

Part 4. Commands

14. Internal Commands and Builtins
15. External Filters, Programs and Commands
16. System and Administrative Commands

Part 5. Advanced Topics

17. Regular Expressions
18. Here Documents
19. I/O Redirection
20. Subshells
21. Restricted Shells
22. Process Substitution
23. Functions
24. Aliases
25. List Constructs
26. Arrays
27. /dev and /proc
28. Of Zeros and Nulls
29. Debugging
30. Options
31. Gotchas
32. Scripting With Style
33. Miscellany
34. Bash, versions 2 and 3

35. Endnotes

35.1. Author's Note
35.2. About the Author
35.3. Where to Go For Help
35.4. Tools Used to Produce This Book
35.5. Credits
35.6. Disclaimer

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