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Index: B
- b (branch) command, sed editor: 34.20. Making Edits Everywhere Except...
- background color: 8.6.2. Configuring It
- background jobs: 24.3. Managing Processes: Overall Concepts
- bringing into foreground with fg command: 23.2.2. Using Job Control from Your Shell
- killing: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- listing with their job numbers: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- notification of state change in: 23.8. Notification When Jobs Change State
- putting into foreground: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- suspending with stop command: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- background processes: 1.10. The Kernel and Daemons
- 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- 24.3. Managing Processes: Overall Concepts
- exit status, testing with if statement: 35.12. Exit Status of Unix Processes
- exit status of: 35.12. Exit Status of Unix Processes
- listing with jobs command: 23.2.2. Using Job Control from Your Shell
- output from, stopping: 23.9. Stop Background Output with stty tostop
- overloading system with: 23.4. Some Gotchas with Job Control
- preventing continuation after logout: 24.14. Killing All Your Processes
- running at lower priority with nice command: 23.4. Some Gotchas with Job Control
- shell capabilities for manipulating: 23.2.2. Using Job Control from Your Shell
- stopping automatically upon attempt to write to screen: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- watching: 25.9. Waiting a Little While: sleep
- backquotes (see `, under Symbols)
- BACKSPACE key: 5.8. Setting Your Erase, Kill, and Interrupt Characters
- backup files
- backup option (xrdb): 6.8. Setting Resources with xrdb
- backups: 38.1. What Is This "Backup" Thing?
- compression, advantages and disadvantages of: 38.5.4. To gzip, or Not to gzip?
- cpio tape archiver: 38.13. The cpio Tape Archiver
- excluding files from: 38.9. On-Demand Incremental Backups of a Project
- GNU tar, using with remote tape drive: 38.8. Using GNU tar with a Remote Tape Drive
- incremental: 38.9. On-Demand Incremental Backups of a Project
- industrial strength: 38.14. Industrial Strength Backups
- making to a local device: 38.5. How to Make Backups to a Local Device
- making your own: 38.3. Make Your Own Backups
- protecting against accidental file deletions: 14.4. Tricks for Making rm Safer
- RCS and CVS: 39.4. Managing and Sharing Files with RCS and CVS
- to remote tape drive using tar: 38.7. Using tar to a Remote Tape Drive
- restoring files from tape with tar: 38.6. Restoring Files from Tape with tar
- tar utility: 38.2. tar in a Nutshell
- absolute pathnames, avoiding: 38.11. Avoid Absolute Paths with tar
- avoiding absolute pathnames: 38.11. Avoid Absolute Paths with tar
- options for: 38.4. More Ways to Back Up
- tar command line arguments, order of: 38.12. Getting tar's Arguments in the Right Order
- wildcards, using: 38.10. Using Wildcards with tar
- utilities for: 38.5.4. To gzip, or Not to gzip?
- versions control systems, using: 38.4. More Ways to Back Up
- barewords used as hash keys: 41.5.3. Hashes
- base64 encoding: 21.12.2. MIME Encoding
- basename program: 36.13. Using basename and dirname
- bash (Bourne-again shell): 1.6. There Are Many Shells
- 1.6. There Are Many Shells
- 27.1. What the Shell Does
- { } (pattern-expansion characters): 28.4. Build Strings with { }
- aliases: 29.2. Introduction to Shell Aliases
- arrays
- bash2, built-in kill command: 24.15. Killing Processes by Name?
- BASH_ENV variable: 35.5. Predefined Environment Variables
- .bashrc file: 3.3. Shell Setup Files — Which, Where, and Why
- .bashrc or .bash_profile, hung terminals and: 5.6. Checklist: Terminal Hangs When I Log In
- case statements: 3.10. Automatic Setups for Different Terminals
- choosing built-in, external, or shell functions: 27.9. Which One Will bash Use?
- command history (see history of commands)
- command-line editing: 30.14.5. bash Editing
- completion features: 28.6. Automatic Completion
- disown command: 23.11. Disowning Processes
- dynamic prompts, simulating: 4.4. Simulating Dynamic Prompts
- editing history substitutions: 28.5. String Editing (Colon) Operators
- environment variables for shell functions, changing: 29.12. Shell Function Specifics
- environment variables, unsetting: 35.3. What Environment Variables Are Good For
- exit status of command line, reversing: 35.12. Exit Status of Unix Processes
- exporting shell functions: 29.13.1. Exporting bash Functions
- fc -l command, listing previous commands with: 30.7. History by Number
- forcing to use internal exit command: 3.8. Setup Files Aren't Read When You Want?
- globbing (wildcard expansion), preventing: 33.2. Filename Wildcards in a Nutshell
- hash command: 27.6. Controlling Shell Command Searches
- history -r command, cautions about: 30.7. History by Number
- history file: 30.12.1. bash, ksh, zsh
- ignoreeof variable: 4.19. Stop Accidental Bourne-Shell Logouts
- job control commands: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- limiting file size: 15.5.1. limit and ulimit
- loading changed PATH: 27.6. Controlling Shell Command Searches
- login and nonlogin, startup files: 3.4.1. Login Shells
- logout file, running commands when logging out: 4.17. Running Commands When You Log Out
- octal character strings: 4.10. Highlighting and Color in Shell Prompts
- parameter expansion shortcuts: 37.5. Quoting and Command-Line Parameters
- passing command history to: 30.13. Pass History to Another Shell
- pre-prompt commands: 4.16. Preprompt, Pre-execution, and Periodic Commands
- process substitution: 28.1. What's Special About the Unix Command Line
- prompts: 4.2. Static Prompts
- $ in: 1.7. Which Shell Am I Running?
- newline (n) character in: 4.7. Multiline Shell Prompts
- nonprinting escape characters: 4.10. Highlighting and Color in Shell Prompts
- showing directory stack: 4.14. dirs in Your Prompt: Better Than $cwd
- subshell level, showing: 4.12. Show Subshell Level with $SHLVL
- read-only functions: 29.12. Shell Function Specifics
- redirecting standard I/O: 43.1. Using Standard Input and Output
- scripts in this book: 27.3.5. Bourne Shell Used Here
- SHLVL environment variable: 4.12. Show Subshell Level with $SHLVL
- showargs script: 27.5. Output Command-Line Arguments One by One
- special characters/operators: 27.17. "Special" Characters and Operators
- string editing operators: 36.7. Parameter Substitution
- stty tostop command, background jobs writing to terminal: 23.9. Stop Background Output with stty tostop
- terminal port type, putting into ttykind shell variable: 3.15. Terminal Setup: Searching Terminal Table
- ulimit -c command, removing limits on core dumps: 15.5.1. limit and ulimit
- wildcards, failing to match: 33.4. What if a Wildcard Doesn't Match?
- BASH_ENV environment variable: 35.5. Predefined Environment Variables
- .bash_login file: 3.3. Shell Setup Files — Which, Where, and Why
- .bash_profile file: 3.3. Shell Setup Files — Which, Where, and Why
- .bashrc file
- batch editing: 20.1. Why Line Editors Aren't Dinosaurs
- awk utility: 20.10. Quick Reference: awk
- changing many files by editing one: 20.6. Change Many Files by Editing Just One
- ed editor
- ex editor
- line addressing: 20.3. Line Addressing
- patch program: 20.9. patch: Generalized Updating of Files That Differ
- running scripts in vi: 20.5. Running Editing Scripts Within vi
- scripts, writing: 20.2. Writing Editing Scripts
- BEGIN and END patterns, awk: 20.10.2.1. Patterns
- behead script: 21.5. Remove Mail/News Headers with behead
- Bell Labs research operating system (Plan 9): 1.6. There Are Many Shells
- Berkeley-based Unix
- Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (bind): 46.9. Domain Name Service (DNS)
- bg command: 23.1. Job Control in a Nutshell
- bgnice option (ksh): 24.20. The Process Chain to Your Window
- bg_nice option (zsh): 24.20. The Process Chain to Your Window
- /bin directory: 7.4. A bin Directory for Your Programs and Scripts
- 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- /bin/passwd, automating: 28.18.2. Automating /bin/passwd
- /bin/time utility: 26.2. Timing Programs
- programs in: 1.9. Internal and External Commands
- remote shell (rsh): 6.10.2. Starting a Remote Client with rsh and ssh
- binary characters, inserting into Emacs files: 19.10. Inserting Binary Characters into Files
- binary files
- accessible by users in /usr/bin subdirectory: 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- archiving system test file: 38.10.3. Wildcard Gotchas in GNU tar
- encoding into ASCII: 21.12. Encoding "Binary" Files into ASCII
- executables, access time updates: 14.17. Deleting Stale Files
- searching for words in: 13.15. Finding Words Inside Binary Files
- system, in /sbin directory: 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- bind (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon): 46.9. Domain Name Service (DNS)
- bind command: 30.14.4. ksh Editing
- binding operator (=~): 41.7. Perl Boot Camp, Part 4: Pattern Matching
- bindkey command
- bit bucket: 15.3. Save Space with "Bit Bucket" Log Files and Mailboxes
- bitmaps: 45.19. The Portable Bitmap Package
- bitwise or (|) operator: 41.4. Perl Boot Camp, Part 1: Typical Script Anatomy
- bkedit script: 35.13. Test Exit Status with the if Statement
- blank lines, squashing extras: 12.7. Squash Extra Blank Lines
- blank shell prompts: 4.13. What Good Is a Blank Shell Prompt?
- blocks
- body of email, forming properly: 21.12.2. MIME Encoding
- bold text: 5.18.1. VT Fonts Menu
- Boolean operators: 41.5.1. Scalars
- /boot directory: 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- boot -v command: 44.2. Reading Kernel Boot Output
- boundary-checking versions of C functions: 48.4. What We Mean by Buffer Overflow
- Bourne shells: 1.6. There Are Many Shells
- branch (b) command, sed editor: 34.20. Making Edits Everywhere Except...
- break command: 31.6. Loop Control: break and continue
- broken links: 10.5. Creating and Removing Links
- browseable option (smb.conf): 47.2. Installing and Configuring Samba
- browsers
- BSD Unix
- file ownership: 50.14. Why Can't You Change File Ownership?
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, support of: 40.1. /usr/bin and Other Software Directories
- group membership: 49.6. Groups and Group Ownership
- make utility, versions of: 40.3. Which make?
- nice command: 26.5. Know When to Be "nice" to Other Users...and When Not To
- ps -a command: 24.7.2. BSD
- ps -aux command: 24.5. The ps Command
- ps ax command: 24.7.2. BSD
- renice command: 26.5. Know When to Be "nice" to Other Users...and When Not To
- signals: 24.10. What Are Signals?
- user/group infrastructure: 49.1. Unix User/Group Infrastructure
- bsplit utility: 21.9. Splitting Files at Fixed Points: split
- buffer overflow, security vulnerability: 48.4. What We Mean by Buffer Overflow
- buffers
- edited, saving as files in vi: 17.10. Keep Your Original File, Write to a New File
- hold space in sed: 34.14. Hold Space: The Set-Aside Buffer
- numbered, recovering vi editor deletions in: 17.7. Get Back What You Deleted with Numbered Buffers
- pattern space in sed: 34.14. Hold Space: The Set-Aside Buffer
- pipes, buffering of output: 43.8. Send Output Two or More Places
- recovered with vi -r, cautions about: 17.20. Be Careful with vi -r Recovered Buffers
- vi editor, using to copy and move text: 17.6. Using Buffers to Move or Copy Text
- buildhash script: 16.5. Adding Words to ispell's Dictionary
- built-in commands: 27.9. Which One Will bash Use?
- bunzip2 file decompression program: 15.6. Compressing Files to Save Space
- button presses
- byte order, converting with dd: 21.13. Text Conversion with dd
- bzip2 utility: 15.6. Compressing Files to Save Space
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