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Customizing Your Shell Environment

You’ve seen a few examples already, in both tcsh and bash style, of how to customize the way your shell works through the use of the default suggested settings in the shell config files. These can serve as perfectly valid examples of how to extend your shell’s functionality. There are a few extra things you can do on your own, though. Also, some available options aren’t clearly demonstrated in the default files. We’ll look at how to accomplish these customizations in tcsh and in bash. In most cases, these are built-in shell commands that can be issued either from the command line directly or from within any of the shell configuration files.

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Full details on a large number of available built-in commands—some ...