Index[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] B language Back door Back tick 2nd Background command grouping defined desktop foreground, versus job control 2nd PID stored in $! process 2nd running a command in symbol (&) BACKSLASH escape character 2nd 3rd BACKSLASH in replacement strings BACKSPACE key Backup active filesystem amanda cpio utility dump level failing to perform file 2nd full incremental media offsite policy simple tar utility utilities badtabs.c program Basename 2nd basename utility 2nd 3rd bash x option <& duplicate input file descriptor >& duplicate output file descriptor alias arguments arithmetic evaluation example 2nd 3rd operators arithmetic expansion operators array variables attribute array export function integer 2nd readonly 2nd background builtin exec getopts typeset close file command process substitution command line, order of expansion conditional expression example 2nd control structure [See Control, structure, shell scripts.] directory stack manipulation editing previous commands 2nd emacs command line editor event number expand null variable expand unset variable expression features file descriptor globbing history mechanism 2nd makepath shell script menu open file operator bitwise remainder short-circuiting ternary options [See bash, features.] overlay pathname completion process substitution program structures programming prompt PS3 prompt quick substitution quiz shell script quotation mark removal recursion redirection operators reexecuting events 2nd REPLY keyword variable signal names 2nd special characters standard error [See Standard, error.] standard input [See Standard, input.] standard output [See Standard, output.] startup files string pattern matching substitution, quick symbolic link ternary operator tilde substitution variable [See also Variable.] array assign default value BASH_ENV COLUMNS display error message expansion LINES modifier OPTARG OPTIND PS3 REPLY 2nd substitute default value vi command line editor vim command line editor BASH_ENV variable bashrc file Baud Baud rate BCPL language beagle utility beagled daemon Bell Laboratories [See AT&T Bell Laboratories.] Berkeley Internet Name Domain [See DNS.] UNIX 2nd 3rd Berners-Lee, Tim bg builtin 2nd 3rd bin directory Binary file Binary files, fixing broken BIND [See also DNS.] bind builtin Binding, key BIOS boot from CD security setup birthday shell script bison utility Bit bucket 2nd depth Bit-mapped display BitTorrent how it works obtain Fedora ISO images peer prerequisites seed torrent tracker using Bitwise operator & 2nd ^ AND 2nd | Blank character 2nd 3rd 4th Block device 2nd number special file Blocking factor Blowfish encryption bmp filename extension Bookmark Konqueror toolbar, Konqueror Boolean Boolean operator ! 2nd 3rd && 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th a 2nd o NOT | || 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Boot bootstrap Linux loader loader, grub netboot options, kernel reconfigure system boot partition 2nd 3rd Bootstrap Bottleneck, network Bourne Shell (original) [See also sh Shell.] Bourne, Steve 2nd Brace around a variable expansion shell functions Bracket character class filename expansion Branch break control structure 2nd Bridge, network Bringing the system down Broadcast about address network 2nd packet unicast, versus Browser defined Firefox Konqueror Lynx (text only) Mosaic Mozilla 2nd 3rd 4th 5th BSD [See Berkeley, UNIX.] Buffer disk primary selection Bug BugSplat Bugtraq Bugzilla defect tracking system defined system Builtin 2nd 3rd 4th . (dot) 2nd 3rd : (null) 2nd 3rd [[...]] alias bash, list of bg 2nd 3rd bind cd 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th command command editing using fc declare 2nd dirs echo 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th eval 2nd exec 2nd 3rd 4th execution of exit 2nd 3rd 4th export 2nd 3rd 4th 5th fc fg 2nd 3rd getopts 2nd history 2nd jobs 2nd 3rd 4th 5th kill 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th let 2nd locale null 2nd popd pushd pwd 2nd 3rd read 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th readonly 2nd 3rd 4th set 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th shift 2nd 3rd source test 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th times tput trap 2nd 3rd type 2nd typeset ulimit umask 2nd unalias 2nd unset 2nd 3rd utility, versus wait bundle shell script bunzip2 utility 2nd Burning installation CDs or DVD Byte bz2 filename extension 2nd bzcat utility bzip2 utility 2nd 3rd bzip2recover utility |