Chapter 5. tcsh: An Extended C Shell
This chapter describes tcsh, an enhanced version of the C shell. On many systems, tcsh is also the regular C shell (/bin/csh); in that case, the tcsh features described in this chapter work even when you run csh. The C shell was so named because many of its programming constructs and symbols resemble those of the C programming language. The following topics are presented:
Overview of features
Invoking the shell
Syntax
Variables
Expressions
Command history
Command-line manipulation
Job control
Built-in commands
For more information on tcsh, see Using csh & tcsh, which is listed in the Bibliography. The web site for tcsh is http://www.tcsh.org.
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