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The shell
is the interface that the user uses to communicate with the system.
Shell Types
- Bourne Shell (sh): Original and standard Unix shell.
- Bourne Again Shell (bash): Standard shell on linux, compatible with
sh
but with improvements. It also incorporates features fromcsh
andksh
. - Korn Shell (ksh): Also an enhancement to the bourne shell
- C Shell (csh): Brings in itself improvements to the features of the
C
language.
To find out which shell is being used on the system, just type echo $0
or ècho $SHELL
or
tail /etc/passwd
`:
machine@machine:~$ echo $0
output: bash
In case you want to install another shell, before installing it let's check:
sudo dpkg -l | grep ksh
If it doesn't return anything, it means that ksh
is not installed, so do:
sudo apt-get install ksh
Typing again will see that it will return this time:
sudo dpkg -l | grep ksh
Now to use ksh
, just type
ksh
in the terminal. To exit ksh just type
exit
.
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