Index

Note: Page references in italics refer to figures; those followed by t refer to tables.

Symbols

* (asterisk), wild card operator, 15

{} (curly brackets), blocking character, 87

$ (dollar sign), variable name indicator, 80

-- (double hyphen), subtraction operator, 90

++ (double plus), addition operator, 91

() (empty parentheses), method call notation, 150

= (equals sign), evaluation operator, 131

! (exclamation point), not notation, 57

> (greater than), evaluation operator, 131, 133

> (greater than), piping character, 6

'a (grave accent a), special escape character, 90

' (grave accent), continuation character, 81

'n (grave accent n), special escape character, 100

< (less than), evaluation operator, 131

() (parentheses), blocking character, 86–88

| (pipe character), pipelining, 21–22

+ (plus symbol), concatenate/glue, 81

“ (quotation marks), filter argument notation, 129

> (redirection arrow), piping character, 6

; (semicolon), separation character, 90–91

' (single quotation mark), filter argument notation, 129