As we discussed earlier, the shell maintains a body of information during our shellsession called the environment. Data stored in the environment is used by pro...
In this chapter we are going to look at some of the “magic” that occurs on the commandline when you press the enter key. While we will examine several interesti...
Up to this point, we have seen a series of mysterious commands, each with its ownmysterious options and arguments. In this chapter, we will attempt to remove so...
When we speak of the command line, we are really referring to the shell. Theshell is a program that takes keyboard commands and passes them to theoperating syst...