Re: Bash commands

[john_macphail@alumni.uwaterloo.ca]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:12:13AM -0700, Petro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:09:56PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> > Daniel Danu wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful
> > >information about the bash command syntax, like
> > >   exec > $build_log 2>&1    and what does it really mean?

Why not the Bash Reference Manual?  You can get it in HTML, PDF and
various other formats at

    http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a/bashref.html

The bash-doc package includes the BRM in info format ("info bash" gets
it), which is not everybody's favourite.  But the BRM itself is very
good.

-- 
John (MacPhail)