Since the Bourne Again SHell is a superset of sh, all sh commands will also work in bash – but not vice versa. bash has many more features of its own, and, as the table below demonstrates, many features incorporated from other shells.
The following features are standard in every shell. Note that the stop, suspend, jobs, bg and fg commands are only available on systems that support job control.
Your system contains a man page listing all the available signals, but depending on your operating system, it might be opened in a different way.
Shell functions are a way to group commands for later execution, using a single name for this group, or routine. The name of the routine must be unique within the shell or script. All the commands that make up a function are executed like regular commands.
There are cases when you want to avoid this kind of behavior, for instance when handling telephone and other numbers. Apart from integers and variables, you may also want to specify a variable that is a constant. This is often done at the beginning of a script, when the value of the constant is declared.
The select construct allows easy menu generation.
To run a specific task or list of commands repetitively on bash script , you need to use on of this three constructions : for , while , until . Each one fits different situation as we will know now.
Some scripts run without any interaction from the user at all. Advantages of non-interactive scripts include: The script runs in a predictable way every time. The script can run in the background.
At times you need to specify different courses of action to be taken in a shell script, depending on the success or failure of a command. The if construction allows you to specify such conditions.
A Stream EDitor ( SED ) tool is used to filter text that it gets from a pipeline feed. You do not need to interact with the editor while it is running; that is why sed is sometimes called a batch editor. This feature allows use of editing commands in scripts, greatly easing repetitive editing