Chapter 8. Configuring Your UNIX Environment
Chapter contents
Understanding your UNIX environment
Discovering your current environment variables
Adding or changing environment variables
Looking at your bash configuration files
Changing your bash path
Changing your bash prompt
Looking at your ksh configuration files
Changing your ksh path
Changing your ksh prompt
Looking at your csh configuration files
Changing your csh path
Changing your csh prompt
Setting aliases
Back in Chapter 3, we introduced you to UNIX shells—what they are and what you can do with them. In this chapter, we'll take you a bit further and look at configuring your environment using the bash, csh, and ksh shells. By configuring your environment (through changing environment variables), ...
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