Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Configuring Your Unix Environment

Chapter Contents

• Understanding your Unix environment

• Discovering your current environment

• Adding or changing variables

• Looking at your zsh configuration files

• Changing your zsh path

• Changing your zsh prompt

• Looking at your bash configuration files

• Changing your bash path

• Changing your bash prompt

• Looking at your ksh configuration files

• Changing your ksh path

• Changing your ksh prompt

• Looking at your csh configuration files

• Changing your csh path

• Changing your csh prompt

• Setting aliases

Back in Chapter 3, we introduced you to Unix shells—what they are and what you can do with them. In this chapter, we’ll take you a bit further and look at configuring your environment using the zsh, bash, csh, and ksh shells. By configuring ...