Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Chapter 3. Working with Your Shell

Chapter contents

• Discovering what shell you're using

• Understanding shells and options

• Changing your shell

• Changing your shell temporarily

• Using command completion in the bash shell

• Viewing session history in the bash shell

• Using command completion in the ksh shell

• Viewing session history in the ksh shell

• Viewing session history in the csh shell

• Changing your identity

• Fixing terminal setting

• Exiting the shell

When you access UNIX, the first thing you see is the prompt, called the shell prompt, which is where you interact with the UNIX system. The shell determines how easily you can enter and reenter commands and how you can control your environment. What's cool about UNIX is that you're not stuck with one shell—that is, ...