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Tutorial: Working with UNIX and Linux Shell

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: January 3, 2007]

You will learn more about your UNIX (and Linux) shell and useful shell commands.

From the article:
When you access a Unix system, the first thing you see is the prompt, called the shell prompt, which is where you interact with Unix

You interact with Unix through a shell, and you have several to chose from. In this chapter, Deborah and Eric Ray show you how to change your shell and get you started using a few of the more common shells.

Index

* Discovering which shell you're using
* Understanding shells and options
* Changing your shell
* Changing your shell temporarily
* Using completion in the bash shell
* Viewing session history in the bash shell
* Using completion in the zsh shell
* Viewing session history in the zsh shell
* Using completion in the ksh shell
* Viewing session history in the ksh shell
* Viewing session history in the csh shell
* Changing your identity
* Fixing terminal settings
* Exiting the shell

Working with Your UNIX Shell

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Discussion on This Article:

  1. Amitabha Pramanik Says:

    How can I get the tutorials ?
    Please reply sharply .-Amitabha

  2. nixcraft Says:

    You can visit following urls:
    http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=680823&rl=1
    http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/

  3. sman Says:

    Good content I found here. Thank you very much

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