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Linux Applications on pSeries
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Linux Applications on pSeries

by Dr. Jan-Rainer Lahmann, Luis Ferreira, Janethe Co, Bjorn Roden
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 36m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 6. Tools in the Toolbox 271
6.6.1 AIX shells
Shells provide a way for you to communicate with the operating system. This
communication is carried out either interactively (input from the keyboard is
acted upon immediately) or as a shell script. A shell script is a sequence of shell
and operating system commands that is stored in a file.
Please refer to the
Shells section of the
AIX 5L Version 5.2 System User's Guide:
Operating System and Devices,
for more in-depth information on shells.
AIX provides the following shells to use both interactively and with shell scripts:
ksh, ksh93,
and psh The Korn shell is an interactive command interpreter and
command programming language. The Korn shell offers
many of the same features as the Bour ...
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