Bash Glossary
Browse 3 bash terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Bash Terms
- Shell Builtin
- A command implemented directly inside the shell process rather than as a separate executable, either because it must modify the shell's own state (like `cd`,...
- Shell Expansion
- The series of transformations the shell applies to a command line before execution — including brace expansion (`{a,b}`), tilde expansion (`~`),...
- Shell Variable
- A named value stored within the shell session, local to that shell process unless explicitly exported (at which point it becomes an environment variable...
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