Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Exiting the shell

When you're finished with your UNIX session, you need to exit the UNIX shell. If you've been playing with the su and shell commands, you might actually have shells within shells and need to exit from all of them. All you have to do is type exit once for each shell, as shown in Figure 3.3.

Figure 3.3. After we entered "exit" from the last shell, the system added "logout" and closed the connection.

To exit from the shell:

• exit

  At the shell prompt, type exit, as shown in Figure 3.3. TaDaaaa!

Tip

If you're located at the login shell prompt, you could also type logout, rather than exit. At all other shells, though, you need to ...