Ubuntu: Up and Running

Content: Table of Contents
 Preface
 Who Should Read This Book
 About This Book
 GNU Software
 A Note About Code Examples
 Useless Use of cat
 A Note About Perl
 More Resources
 Conventions Used in This Book
 Using Code Examples
 We\'d Like to Hear from You
 Safari® Enabled
 Acknowledgments
 Reviewers
 O\'Reilly
 From the Authors
 Carl
 JP
 Cameron
 Chapter 1. Beginning bash
 0 Why bash?
 0 The bash Shell
 1.1 Decoding the Prompt
 Problem
 Solution
 Discussion
 See Also
 1.2 Showing Where You Are
 Problem
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 1.3 Finding and Running Commands
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 1.4 Getting Information About Files
 Problem
 Solution
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 1.5 Showing All Hidden (dot) Files in the Current Directory
 Problem
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 1.6 Using Shell Quoting
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 Discussion
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 1.7 Using or Replacing Built-ins and External Commands
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 1.8 Determining If You Are Running Interactively
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 1.9 Setting bash As Your Default Shell
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 1.10 Getting bash for Linux
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 1.11 Getting bash for xBSD
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 1.12 Getting bash for Mac OS X
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 1.13 Getting bash for Unix
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 1.14 Getting bash for Windows
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 1.15 Getting bash Without Getting bash
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 1.16 Learning More About bash Documentation
 Problem
 Solution
 Official documentation
 Other documentation
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 Chapter 2. Standard Output
 2.1 Writing Output to the Terminal/Window
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 2.2 Writing Output but Preserving Spacing
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 2.3 Writing Output with More Formatting Control
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 2.4 Writing Output Without the Newline
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 2.5 Saving Output from a Command
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 2.6 Saving Output to Other Files
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 2.7 Saving Output from the ls Command
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 2.8 Sending Both Output and Error Messages to Different Files
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 2.9 Sending Both Output and Error Messages to the Same File
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 2.10 Appending Rather Than Clobbering Output
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 2.11 Using Just the Beginning or End of a File
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 2.12 Skipping a Header in a File
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 2.13 Throwing Output Away
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 2.14 Saving or Grouping Output from Several Commands
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 2.15 Connecting Two Programs by Using Output As Input.