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Index: B
- background commands
: 3.1. Running Commands When You Log Out
- background processes
- 1.26. What a Multiuser System Can Do for You
- 3.4. Automatic File Cleanup
- 12.1.1. Foreground and Background
- 38.3. Managing Processes: Overall Concepts
- automatically killing
: 38.17. Automatically Kill Background Processes on Logout in csh
- exit status of
: 44.7. Exit Status of UNIX Processes
- output from
: 12.7. Stop Background Output with stty tostop
- preventing continuing after logout
: 38.12. Killing All Your Processes
- watching
: 40.2. Waiting a Little While: sleep
- backquotes
: (see `)
- backslash
: (see \)
- BACKSPACE key
: 41.2.2. Handling Most Characters
- deleting on command line
: 9.2. Fix a Line Faster with Line-Kill and Word-Erase
- erase character
: 51.6. Cleaning script Files
- location for
: 2.13. A .cshrc.$HOST File for Per Host Setup
- backspacing over shell prompts
: 41.5. Why Some Systems Backspace over Prompts
- backups
: 20.1. tar in a Nutshell
- advantages
: 20.2. Make Your Own Backups
- bkedit script
: 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- of directories
: 20.8.1. Including Other Directories
- Emacs auto-save, backup files
: 32.4. Backup and Auto-Save Files
- RCS and SCCS
: 20.12. Protecting Files with SCCS or RCS
- on remote tape drives
: 20.6. Writing a Tape Drive on a Remote Machine
- restoring files from
: 20.4. Restoring Files from Tape with tar
- timestamps and
: 20.7. Creating a Timestamp File for Selective Backups
- "bad magic number" error message
: 50.12. Common UNIX Error Messages
- Baldwin, Robert
: 22.17. Ways of Improving the Security of crypt
- bang
: (see !)
- banner command
: 43.11. Big Letters: banner
- banners, printing
: 43.11. Big Letters: banner
- basename program
- 45.18. Using basename and dirname
- 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- bugs in
: 45.18.1. Introduction to basename and dirname
- examples
- 45.13. Save Disk Space and Programming: Multiple Names for a Program
- 45.18. Using basename and dirname
- loops using
: 45.18.2. Use with Loops
- bash (Bourne-again shell)
- 1.8. There Are Many Shells
- 8.2. Introduction to bash
- 8.17. verbose and echo Variables Show Quoting
- 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- (see also sh (Bourne shell))
- alias facility
: 10.2. Aliases for Common Commands
- aliases in
: 10.4. Aliases in ksh and bash
- .bashrc file
: 2.2.4. bash
- C shell compared to
: 47.1. Why Not?
- case statements
: 2.12. Automatic Setups for Different Terminals
- command history
- 11.1. The Lessons of History
- (see history of command)
- echo used in
: 46.10. A Portable echo Command
- evaluating command line
: 8.11. Which One Will bash Use?
- fc command
: 11.14.2. In ksh and bash: fc
- history file
: 11.11.1. bash and ksh
- octal character strings
: 7.8. Highlighting in Shell Prompts
- passing command history to
: 11.12. Pass History to Another Shell
- pre-prompt commands
: 7.13. Pre-Prompt Commands in bash
- process substitution
: 9.18.1. bash Process Substitution
- prompt setting
- 7.4. Faster Prompt Setting with Built-Ins
- 7.5. Multiline Shell Prompts
- 7.9. Show Subshell Level with $SHLVL
- speeding up
: 2.11. Faster ksh and bash Startup with $- Test
- string editing in
: 9.7. String Editing in ksh and bash
- string editing operators
: 45.12. Parameter Substitution
- bash command
: 52.5.3.5. Installing Everything Using the Defaults
- batch command
- 40.1. Off-Peak Job Submission
- 40.6. System V.4 Batch Queues
- batch editing
: 33.1. Why Line Editors Aren't Dinosaurs
- awk for
: (see awk)
- diff command
: 33.6. Change Many Files by Editing Just One
- ex scripting
: 33.3. Line Addressing
- file size limits
: 33.8. Batch Editing Gotcha: Editors Bomb on Big Files
- patch program
: 33.9. patch: Generalized Updating of Files that Differ
- qsubst program
: 33.10. Quick Globals from the Command Line with qsubst
- sed for
: (see sed)
- batch execution
: 40.6. System V.4 Batch Queues
- batch queues
: 40.6. System V.4 Batch Queues
- baud rate
: 41.2.1. How We Made It This Far (Back?)
- bc program
: 49.1. bc: Simple Math at the Shell Prompt
- bdiff command
: 28.7. diff for Very Long Files: bdiff
- behead script
- 35.5. Remove Mail/News Headers with behead
- 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- Berkeley printing commands
: 43.2.2. Berkeley Printing Commands
- Berkeley UNIX
: 41.2.1. How We Made It This Far (Back?)
- bg command
: 12.1.1. Foreground and Background
- putting jobs in background
: 42.2.3. Program Waiting for Input?
- big environment, effects of
: 39.8. A Big Environment Can Slow You Down
- /bin directory
: 4.2. A bin Directory for Your Programs and Scripts
- /bin/time utility
- 39.2. Timing Programs
- 39.5. Why Is the System So Slow?
- programs in
: 1.10. Internal and External Commands
- in search paths
: 44.3.4. Shell Search Paths
- binary data, archiving
: 19.5. Using tar to Create and Unpack Archives
- binary files, searching
: 27.19. Finding Words Inside Binary Files
- bit bucket
- 13.15. What to Do with a Full Bit Bucket :-)
- 24.2. Save Space with Bit Bucket Log Files and Mailboxes
- bit rate
: 41.2.1. How We Made It This Far (Back?)
- bitmap files
: 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- with pbmplus
: 52.7.1. Alternative Media
- bkedit script
: 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- examples
- 44.8. Test Exit Status with the if Statement
- 44.11. Set Exit Status of a Shell (Script)
- 45.12. Parameter Substitution
- blank lines
: (see newlines; white space)
- blank shell prompt
: 7.10. What Good Is a Blank Shell Prompt?
- block input operations
: 39.3. The csh time variable
- block output operations
: 39.3. The csh time variable
- block sizes, tape
: 20.6. Writing a Tape Drive on a Remote Machine
- blocking factor
: 20.6. Writing a Tape Drive on a Remote Machine
- bold text
: 43.18. How nroff Makes Bold and Underline; How to Remove It
- Boolean capabilities
- in termcap or terminfo files
: 41.11. How termcap and terminfo Describe Terminals
- Bourne shell
: (see sh)
- Bourne-again shell
: (see bash)
- Bournegol
: 46.6. Watch Out for Bourne Shell -e Bug
- Boyer-Moore search algorithm
: 27.9. New greps Are Much Faster
- braces
: (see { })
- brackets
: (see [ ])
- [ ] (brackets)
- [ command
: 44.20. test: Testing Files and Strings
- break command
- redirected loops using
: 45.23. The Ins and Outs of Redirected I/O Loops
- break command (awk)
: 33.11.7. Alphabetical Summary of Commands
- "broken pipe" error message
- 46.1.1. Use -xv
- 50.12. Common UNIX Error Messages
- bs capability
: 41.11. How termcap and terminfo Describe Terminals
- BSD standalone nice
: 39.9.2. BSD Standalone nice
- BSD tty driver
- echoing control characters
: 41.5. Why Some Systems Backspace over Prompts
- BSD UNIX
- alternatives for
: 50.8. Which Version Am I Using?
- changing a job's priority
: 39.11. Changing a Job's Priority Under BSD UNIX
- file ownership and
: 22.20. Why Can't You Change File Ownership Under BSD UNIX?
- manual page categories
: 50.1. UNIX Online Documentation
- which command
: 50.8. Which Version Am I Using?
- BSDC shell nice command
: 39.9.1. BSD C Shell nice
- bsdtar program
: 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- bsplit program
- 35.9. Splitting Files at Fixed Points: split
- 52.4. Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- buffers for output
: 13.9. Send Output Two or More Places with tee
- Buggy Bourne Shell
: 46.6. Watch Out for Bourne Shell -e Bug
- build.pt script
: 52.8.1. Running the Build Scripts
- buildhash script
: 29.5. Adding Words to ispell's Dictionary
- built-in commands
- 7.4. Faster Prompt Setting with Built-Ins
- 8.11. Which One Will bash Use?
- builtin command
: 8.11. Which One Will bash Use?
- burn-in
: 22.18. Clear Your Terminal for Security, to Stop Burn-in
- bus error (core dumped) error message
: 50.12. Common UNIX Error Messages
- byte order conversion
- order
: 35.13. Other Conversions with dd
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