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9 The TC Shell (tcsh)

In This Chapter

Shell Scripts

Entering and Leaving the TC Shell

Features Common to the Bourne Again and TC Shells

Redirecting Standard Error

Word Completion

Editing the Command Line

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

Objectives

Identify tcsh startup files

Explain the function of the history, histfile, and savehist variables

Set up an alias that uses a ...

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