Hour 14. Advanced Shell Interaction

Goals for This Hour

In this hour, you will learn

Image How to turn on the bash and ksh history mechanism

Image How to use bash history and ksh history to cut down on typing

Image About command aliases in bash and ksh

Image Some power aliases for bash

How to set custom prompts

The preceding hour gave you an overview of the different ...

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