Different Shells
HP-UX, like all UNIX variants, allows you to select among different shells. A lot of material is available on the POSIX shell, which is the default HP-UX shell in most cases. There is less information available on the other widely used shells, so I have decided to cover them in this chapter. The shell is important to you as a system administrator and user because it is your window into the system. I decided to include the KornShell and C shell in this chapter because so many new HP-UX users and system administrators use them as their shells even though the POSIX shell is the default on most systems. I included Bash because it is widely used in Open Source enviornments and many Open Source GNU tools are available for HP-UX 11i. ...
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