Summary

This is the last summary of this book and the last topic was figlet; and it was not just a coincidence. What we tried to make clear through all the chapters is that Bash is fun. Did we touch every possible topic and example? No, not at all, and this is the greatest thing of all: we have so many things to see, so many ways to bend Bash to do unthinkable tasks. Just think about something and then try the shell: in most cases a bit of imagination will find a creative way to overcome obstacles and to chuckle about what has been done. This book is named Mastering Bash, but no book can exhaust the massive amount of things that we can discover about this shell. So, this is not a landing point, this is just a step further, maybe higher than usual, but just a step in an ongoing journey in our favorite environment, in our beloved GNU/Linux operating system.

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