license: gfdl
language:
- en
size_categories:
- n<1K
Bash Reference Manual — Cleaned Dataset
This dataset contains cleaned and structured text extracted from the GNU Bash Reference Manual, Edition 5.3.
The original manual was converted to plain text and processed to reduce PDF extraction artifacts, remove navigation references and page numbers, preserve paragraph structure, and split the content into topic-centered sections.
The dataset is intended primarily for language-model pretraining and continued pretraining, especially for models learning Bash, shell scripting, command-line usage, and Linux-related concepts.
Format
Each record contains metadata such as:
- chapter title
- section title
- cleaned text
- word and character counts
License
The source manual is published by the Free Software Foundation under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 1.3 or later, with no Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover Texts.
This dataset is a modified and reorganized derivative of the original manual and is distributed under the same license.
A copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is included with the dataset.