Bash Reference Manual Author:Chet Ramey, Brian Fox Bash is one of the most popular "shell," or command language interpreters, used with the Unix operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell ksh and the C shell csh. It is intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).... more » It offers functional improvements over sh for both interactive and programming use. What's more Bash is portable; it currently runs on nearly every version of Unix and a few other operating systems--independently supported ports exist for MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows 95, and Windows NT. iUniverse.com Computer Books are composed of freely available online computer manuals, industry standard specifications, and electronically distributed computer-programming guides. They include open documents collections of industry specifications and standards and a collection of the best open source documentation on the Web...the most complete open source library available anywhere. Each book contains the complete, unabridged text of the original document. Our on-demand publishing process gives you the actual text of the online document in a convenient, inexpensive, easy-to-use format. And remember...iUniverse.com donates a portion of the profits from open document and open source books to support the mission of the free software community.« less