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In this chapter, we’ve looked at some tricks and tips to help you use the BASH shell more effectively. You’ve seen how BASH can help by autocompleting commands, filenames, and directories. You also learned about keyboard shortcuts that can be used to speed up operations within the shell.
This chapter also covered the history function and how it can be used to reuse old commands, saving valuable typing time. Finally, we looked at two key functions provided by BASH: redirection and piping. This involved the explanation of standard input, output, and error.
In Part Five of the book, starting with the next chapter, we move on to discuss the powerful multimedia functionality within SUSE Linux.
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(2005). Cool Shell Tricks. In: Beginning SUSE Linux. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0006-2_18
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