Index_B

B

backups

creating archives, 25, 275 “276, 281 “282

essential directories, 267 “268

extracting archives, 25 “26, 271 “272, 277, 281 “284

full, 268 “269

incremental, 268 “271

testing archives, 26, 276 “277, 283

to CD/DVD writers, 272

to hard disks, 272

basename , 157 “158

bash . See Bourne-again shell

.bash_login , 307

.bash_profile , 307 “309

.bashrc , 307 “309

bg , 20. See also job control

/bin , 30

/bin/sh . See Bourne shell

block devices. See devices, block

block size (for tape drives ). See tape drives, block size

boot loaders

description, 33

GRUB, 60, 218 “220

LILO, 60, 216 “217, 220 “222

using, 59 “62

booting

overview, 53 “54

PC, 217

Bourne shell

command substitution, 155

command-line editing, 12 “13, 311

conditionals, 148 “153

description, 2

here documents, 156 “157

loops , 153 “154

parameters, 145 “147

prompt ( see prompt)

quoting, 144 “145

redirecting input and output, 15 “16

startup file order, 307 “309

subshells, 160 “161

user input, 161

using, 2 “4

variables , 10, 145 “148

versus the C shell, 311

wildcards, 6 “7, 10, 153

Bourne-again shell, 2. See also Bourne shell

broadband, 105 “107

bunzip2 , 27

.bz2 , 27, 184

bzImage , 214 “215. See also kernel, image file

bzip2 , 27