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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

A ubiquitous shell. The default for almost all Linux distributions.

Random notes on this software.

• On Windows, I use Git on Windows.

I would much rather use the same Zsh environment on Windows and Linux. Having to figure out portability is annoying.

Note that you will find a lot of example and working code on GitHub:

• bash-windows
• bash-and-zsh

• sh

  • .. since sh code usually works.

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• 2016-03-28 - 4.2.53(2), on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 4.3.11(1), on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• 2016-01-30 - 4.3.42(5), on Git on Windows 2.7.4 64-bit
• (earlier than) 2016-01-29 - 3.1.20(4), on Git on Windows Git-1.9.5-preview20141217

• 2009-04-21 - 3.1.17 on (distribution not recorded)

  • It's the standard, but I bloody well hate how it works. It's so clumsy and GNU.

• Bash has come with every distribution I have ever used.

Resources ∞

• http://www.labbookpages.co.uk/software/bashTips.html
• https://devmanual.gentoo.org/tools-reference/bash/index.html
• https://linuxconfig.org/bash-scripting-tutorial
• http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/refcards.html

• http://pablotron.org/software/bash_tweaks/

  • 2017-02-07 - down, reportedly migrating to a new server

2016-03-28 - 4.2.53(2) ∞

GNU bash, version 4.2.53(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)

Bash came with Slackware.

2016-03-26 - 4.3.11(1) ∞

GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Bash came with Lubuntu.

TODO - add my notes - http://spiralofhope.com/shell-scripting.html etc.

2016-01-30 - 4.3.42(5) ∞

4.3.42(5)-release (x86_64-pc-msys)

(earlier than) 2016-01-29 - 3.1.20(4) ∞

3.1.20(4)-release (i686-pc-msys)

This was damned old, even at the time. I had to jump through hoops to do scripting under this restriction.

Notes ∞

Builtins ∞

2017-11-05 - A random note from 2009-03-29 which I apparently can't reproduce on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

man 1 builtins

NAME
       bash,  :,  ., [, alias, bg, bind, break, builtin, cd, command, compgen,
       complete, continue, declare, dirs, disown, echo,  enable,  eval,  exec,
       exit,  export,  fc,  fg, getopts, hash, help, history, jobs, kill, let,
       local, logout, popd, printf, pushd, pwd, read, readonly,  return,  set,
       shift,  shopt,  source,  suspend,  test,  times,  trap,  type, typeset,
       ulimit, umask, unalias, unset,  wait  -  bash  built-in  commands,  see
       bash(1)

SEE ALSO
       bash(1), sh(1)