Learning Shell Scripting with Zsh. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Festari, Gaston
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Installing zsh; Installing on Linux; Installing on OS X; Compiling from source; First run; Making zsh your login shell; Shell options; The startup files; The shell prompt; The prompt command; Customizing the prompt; Using escape sequences; Conditional expressions; Putting it all together; Summary; Chapter 2: Alias and History; Working with aliases; Quoting characters; Single and double quoting aliases; Global aliases; Hashes; Putting it all together. ExpansionParameter expansion; Command substitution; Arithmetic expansion; Brace expansion; Working with history; History expansion; History substitution; More useful options; Summary; Chapter 3: Advanced Editing; Zsh Line Editor; Getting to know ZLE; Working with keymaps; Basic editing; Going back and forth with words; Yanking and transposing text; History revisited; Advanced editing; ZLE-related options; Defining your own keymaps; Don't call them widgets; Defining your own widgets; Your first function; Working with regions; Multiline editing; Putting it all together; Summary. Chapter 4: GlobbingQuoting your strings; Double quotes; Getting started with Globbing; Globbing with the stars; Questions for any single character; Brackets for a sequence of characters; Using safer ranges on your scripts; Avoiding characters; Handling mismatches; Extended Globbing; Special patterns; Recursive searching; Alternate patterns; Numeric ranges; The caret operator, revisited; The tilde operator; Glob qualifiers; Timestamp qualifiers; File size qualifiers; The zmv function; Summary; Chapter 5: Completion; Getting started with completion; Getting assertive with zstyle. Command correctionCompleters; Ignoring matches; Function definitions; The path of the function; Summary; Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks; Main resources; Helping tips; Directory substitution; Magic space; Random numbers; zcalc; Change and list directory contents; Finding your path through commands; Other projects; zsh-lovers; zsh-users; oh-my-zsh; Prezto; Explain Shell; Your dotfiles; Summary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (132 pages)
• Subjects: 005.432; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C; Scripting languages (Computer science); Operating systems (Computers); UNIX device drivers (Computer programs); COMPUTERS -- Operating Systems -- UNIX; COMPUTERS -- Programming -- General; Operating systems (Computers); Scripting languages (Computer science); UNIX device drivers (Computer programs); COMPUTERS -- Web -- Browsers; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783282944; 1783282940
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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