Introduction to the C Shell
The C shell is similar to other shells in that it provides a user interface to UNIX. You can use the C shell in the following three ways:
Interactively type commands on the command line.
Group commonly executed sets of commands into command files that you can execute by typing the name of the file.
Create C shell programs using the structured programming techniques of the C shell.
These three techniques are listed in the order in which you'll probably use them. First, you log in and use interactive commands. Then you group together commonly used commands and execute them with a single command. Finally, you may want to create sophisticated shell scripts.
In this chapter, I cover login and interactive commands and a lot ...
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