Pattern matching and regular expressions

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Pattern matching and regular expressions/

Pattern matching and regular expressions

Behaviour when a glob does not match anything

Check if a string matches a regular expression

Get captured groups from a regex match against a string

Case insensitive matching

Extended globbing

Matching hidden files

Table Of Contents

1 Getting started

2 Using trap to react to signals and system events

3 Listing files

5 Jobs and processes

7 Control structures

11 Bash Parameter Expansion

14 Here documents and here strings

16 Conditional Expressions

17 Scripting with parameters

18 History substitutions

21 Process substitution

22 Programmable completion

23 Customizing PS1

24 Brace Expansion

25 Bash Arithmetic

26 getopts smart positional-parameter parsing

29 Script shebang

30 Pattern matching and regular expressions

31 Keyboard shortcuts

32 Change shell

33 Copying with cp

34 Internal variables

36 Case statement

37 Word splitting

39 File transfer with scp

41 Managing PATH environment variable

42 Avoiding date using printf

43 Chain of commands and operations

44 Type of shells

45 true, false and commands

46 Color script output cross-platform

47 Navigating directories

50 co-processes

51 Typing variables

52 Jobs at specific types

53 Associative arrays

54 Handling the system prompt

55 Creating directories

56 File execution sequence

57 The cut command

58 Bash on Windows 10

60 Splitting files

61 Global and local variables

62 Design Patterns

64 Select keyword

65 When to use eval

66 Networking with bash

72 Contributors

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