Practical UNIX

Chapter 22. Command-Line Editing in the Korn Shell

Sanjiv Guha and Steve “Mor” Moritsugu

Editing the command line so that you don’t have to retype it History of commands Developing complex pipelines using command-line editing The Alias command

Tip for Beginners The Korn shell and the Bash shell offer many conveniences that the standard Bourne shell lacks. Command-line editing allows you to repeat and modify previous commands or fix wrong characters without retyping the whole command. You will see in this chapter how advanced users use this feature to construct complex command pipelines reliably and quickly one step at a time.