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This chapter describes features unique to Bash.
| • Invoking Bash: | Command line options that you can give to Bash. | |
| • Bash Startup Files: | When and how Bash executes scripts. | |
| • Interactive Shells: | What an interactive shell is. | |
| • Bash Conditional Expressions: | Primitives used in composing expressions for
the test builtin.
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| • Shell Arithmetic: | Arithmetic on shell variables. | |
| • Aliases: | Substituting one command for another. | |
| • Arrays: | Array Variables. | |
| • The Directory Stack: | History of visited directories. | |
| • Controlling the Prompt: | Customizing the various prompt strings. | |
| • The Restricted Shell: | A more controlled mode of shell execution. | |
| • Bash POSIX Mode: | Making Bash behave more closely to what the POSIX standard specifies. |