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Preface

Ch. 1. Beginning bash

Ch. 2. Standard Output

Ch. 3. Standard Input

Ch. 4. Executing Commands

Ch. 5. Basic Scripting: Shell Variables

Ch. 6. Shell Logic and Arithmetic

Ch. 7. Intermediate Shell Tools I

Ch. 8. Intermediate Shell Tools II

Ch. 9. Finding Files: find, locate, slocate

Ch. 10. Additional Features for Scripting

Ch. 11. Working with Dates and Times

Ch. 12. End-User Tasks As Shell Scripts

Ch. 13. Parsing and Similar Tasks

Ch. 14. Writing Secure Shell Scripts

Ch. 15. Advanced Scripting

Ch. 16. Configuring and Customizing bash

Ch. 17. Housekeeping and Administrative Tasks

Renaming Many Files

Using GNU Texinfo and Info on Linux

Unzipping Many ZIP Files

Recovering Disconnected Sessions Using screen

Sharing a Single bash Session

Logging an Entire Session or Batch Job

Clearing the Screen When You Log Out

Capturing File Metadata for Recovery

Creating an Index of Many Files

Using diff and patch

Counting Differences in Files

Removing or Renaming Files Named with Special Characters

Prepending Data to a File

Editing a File in Place

Using sudo on a Group of Commands

Finding Lines in One File But Not in the Other

Keeping the Most Recent N Objects

Grepping ps Output Without Also Getting the grep Process Itself

Finding Out Whether a Process Is Running

Adding a Prefix or Suffix to Output

Numbering Lines

Writing Sequences

Emulating the DOS Pause Command

Commifying Numbers

Ch. 18. Working Faster by Typing Less

Ch. 19. Tips and Traps: Common Goofs for Novices

Appx. A. Reference Lists

Appx. B. Examples Included with bash

Appx. C. Command-Line Processing

Appx. D. Revision Control

Appx. E. Building bash from Source

Colophon

Index

17.23. Emulating the DOS Pause Command

17.23.1. Problem

You are migrating from DOS/Windows batch files and want to emulate the DOS pause command.

17.23.2. Solution

To do that, use the read -p command in a function:

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