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Learning Unix for Mac OS X, Second Edition
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Learning Unix for Mac OS X, Second Edition

by Brian Jepson, Dave Taylor
December 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
4h 22m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Further Customization

There’s not much more you can do with the Terminal application than what’s shown in this chapter, but there’s an infinite amount of customization possible with the tcsh shell (or any other shell you might have picked). To learn more about how to customize your shell, read the manpage. Be warned, though, the tcsh manpage is over 4,700 lines long!

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, manpages are the Unix version of online help documentation. Just about every command-line (Unix) command has a corresponding manpage with lots of information on starting flags, behaviors, and much more. You can access any manpage by simply typing man cmd. Start with man man to learn more about the man system.

For more information on customizing tcsh, see Paul DuBois’ book, Using csh and tcsh, or Unix Power Tools, by Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, and Mike Loukides, both available from O’Reilly.

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