The Bourne Shell

• A Bit of History
• Getting to Know the Bourne Shell
• Multiple Commands Per Line
• Redirection and Pipelines
• Filename Substitution
• Special Characters
• Variables
  • Variable Substitutions
  • Parameters
  • Environmental Variables
  • Special Variables
• Bourne Shell Programming
  • Testing and Branching
  • String Comparisons
  • Testing Files
  • Loop Control
    • Exiting Loops Early
  • Input and Output (I/O)
  • Advanced Programming Topics
    • Functions
    • Trapping Errors
  • Dot Files