Unix and Linux: Visual Quickstart Guide, Fifth Edition

3. Working with Your Shell

In This Chapter

Discovering Which Shell You’re Using

Understanding Shells and Options

Changing Your Shell with chsh

Changing Your Shell Temporarily

Using Completion in the bash Shell

Viewing Session History in the bash Shell

Using Completion in the zsh Shell

Viewing Session History in the zsh Shell

Changing Your Identity with su

Fixing Terminal Settings with stty

Exiting the Shell

When you access a Unix or Linux system, the first thing you see is the prompt, called the shell prompt, which is where you interact with Unix or Linux. The shell determines how easily you can enter and reenter commands and how you can control your environment. What’s cool is that you’re not stuck with one shell—that is, on most systems you ...