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Q. How do I display shell environment settings under FreeBSD operating systems?

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Q. How do I add new path to PATH variable under Linux and UNIX operating system?

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Q. I find vi hard to use. How do I change my default text editor from vim / vi to Pico under Debian Linux?
A. To use and change an editor to edit your text message, set the variable EDITOR to the pathname of the vi / vim binary file. You need to use export or [...]

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Q. I’m using BASH shell filename tab completion feature to complete file names and other stuff. However default tab-completion in bash case-sensitive. It cannot show me /tmp/Y* or /tmp/Y* files. How do I force filename tab-completion in bash case insensitive?
A. According to bash man page completion-ignore-case set to Off. If set to [...]

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