Appendix E. Glossary
- access permission
This allows you to read, write, or execute various files depending on the permissions that are set on the file that you are trying to access.
- alias
UNIX commands that you can define with new shorter names. This table is a mechanism that is associated with the C and Korn shells. You can take a long command that can be over 15 characters in length and type two keys to perform the same command after you have made an alias of it.
- append
When a command is executed, the output can be attached to the end of another file. This append process is more typically performed by having two greater than signs (
>>) at the end of a command that points to another file. The output from the commands is attached to the bottom of the ...
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