The [Bourne Again Shell][bash] is a very widely adopted [Unix
shell][shell], and is the default shell for many distributions.
Mendel Cooper's [Advanced Bash Scripting Guide][guide] is an excellent
resource, and there is also a nicely detailed [manual][].

[bash]: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
[shell]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell
[guide]: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
[manual]: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/

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