Small, Sharp Software Tools

What You Learned

You can now customize your command-line interface instead of just living with the defaults. You know how to use environment and shell variables, you can create a configuration file for your shell with various settings, and you know how to make shortcuts using aliases and functions.

With your environment customized, it’s time to dig in to some different ways to run commands. While you’re there, you’ll also explore process management.

Footnotes

[13]

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Quoting.html

[14]

https://www.nano-editor.org

[15]

https://git-scm.com/

[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard

[17]

https://iterm2.com/

[18]

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

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