Bash-Beginnners-Guide chapter3

1.shell initilization files
        system wide configuration files
                /et/profile
                /etc/bashrc
        individual user configuration files
                ~/.bash_profile
                ~/.bash_login
                ~/.profile
                ~/.bashrc
                ~/.bash_logout

2.execute script within current shell process
        $. example.sh
        $source example.sh

3.types of variables
        global variables
                $printenv
        local variables
                $set

4.Exporting variables
        $export VARNAME="value"

5.reserved variables

6.special parameters

        $* $@ $# $? $-
        $$ $0 $_ $1 $2

 

7.quoting charactor
        escape characters
                /
        single quotes
                franky ~> echo '$data'
                $date
        double quotes
                franky ~>echo "date"
                20021226

 

8.shell expansion
        brace expansion
                franky ~> echo sp{el,il,al}l
                spell spill spall