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Cool Shell Tricks

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The BASH shell is the product of many years of development work by a lot of people. It comes from the old days of Unix and was an important step in computer software evolution. It’s a program that retains complete simplicity, yet packs in more features than most users could ever hope to use.

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© 2007 Keir Thomas

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(2007). Cool Shell Tricks. In: Beginning Ubuntu Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0191-5_17

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