haha well, right now my internet connection is slowing down to a stop. when it seems to be not bogged down any longer ill look around, but try searching this site, also, i know that bash is copyrighted by the free software foundation, so looking there might yeild viable results, also IEEE sets standards to follow, and the standard unices are held to, the POSIX standard, try searching for those on various sites. and if you have already and still havnt fuond your answers, im sorry, idont really know exact site addresses, i hope my answer wasnt half assed, again when my connection isnt grinding down to a halt ill look around and post back, and someone on these boards is bound to know everything that you have asked for. good luck
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http://www.pasc.org/ this is the IEEE site, (POSIX)
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage (everything)
http://www.linuxbase.org (linux)

hope those are what your looking for.