Chapter 49. Recycle Your Shell
When you’re at the CLI, you’re where it’s at. Why else would Microsoft—the glutton for GUI—have slaved so feverishly to add a shell to Vista?
At the risk of sounding like Yogi Berra and that duck in the barbershop commercial, I’ve got to say although Microsoft found replacing the DOS command line to be too tough a shell to crack, others did not.
That’s why Monad didn’t survive the feature cuts for Vista. Never fear, gentle readers, Linux has shells enough for all. This chapter explains how to change the one you’re using.
The most popular shell on Linux distributions is the Bourne Again Shell, aka bash. SUSE also includes Zsh, which resembles the Korn shell; tcsh, an enhanced, compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX ...
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