A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux® 8

Advanced Exercises

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What lines do you need to change in the Bourne Again Shell script command_menu (page 654) to make it a TC Shell script? Make the changes and verify that it works.

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Users often find rm (and even rm –i) too unforgiving because it removes files irrevocably. Create an alias named delete that moves files specified by its argument(s) into the ~/.trash directory. Create a second alias, named undelete, that moves a file from the ~/.trash directory into the working directory. Finally, put the following line in your .logout file to remove any files that you deleted during the login session: /bin/rm -f $HOME/.trash/* >& /dev/null Explain what could be different if the following line were put in your .logout file instead: rm $HOME/.trash/* ...