The GNU Bash Reference Manual

by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox

This manual is the definitive reference for GNU Bash, the standard GNU command-line interpreter. It covers the current major release of Bash (v3.2, revised printing November 2006).

GNU Bash is a complete implementation of the POSIX.2 Bourne shell specification (/bin/sh), with additional features from the C-shell (csh) and Korn shell (ksh).

The authors of this manual, Chet Ramey and Brian Fox, are the original developers of GNU Bash.

For each copy of this manual sold, $1 is donated to the Free Software Foundation.

As of January 2010 the total amount donated to FSF is $2,978 from the sale of this and other books.

This book is published under the GNU Free Documentation License.

204 pages. Revised October 2006.
ISBN: 0-9541617-7-7 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9541617-7-4)

This book has received a top-rated review in Linux User and Developer Magazine:

"An essential resource .... the most detailed coverage available for all aspects of Bash" --- Linux User and Developer Magazine (Issue 37, Mar 2004)