general questions re shell, prompts, X
Chaps, very new newbie ...very thick, wondering about three things in my Slack (installed with relative ease - apart from Lilo, but did it) -
Shell - my default shell is bash. But I was wondering, if you didnt have a shell set up as default, what could you do? Basically, how can you tell if a command you enter is a bash command, a standard linux command, or a slackware command? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick here? Prompts - when I first log in, my prompt is a tilda and hash. If I do Cd /, then the tilda becomes a /. So whats the tilda all about? X - I'm using blackbox as default for the time being, and in xterm, I cd to the games. Interestingly, all the games are in bright light green - I can hardly read it. Also, the path on my prompt ends with games# , even though directory is games. I did do google searches for this info, but apart from unanswered limited stuff to 'linux without shell', couldnt get anywhere. Thanks |
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stand-alone executable look at "man bash". man bash /^SHELL BUILTIN Quote:
short for (every users) /home/username Quote:
The # indicates that you're doing something very stupid, you're running as root, which is the single biggest mistake new-comers to the Linux-world make. Cheers, Tink |
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