most common shells for Solaris and Linux users:
ksh and
bash
temporarily loading another shell
changing your shell permanently through /etc/passwd
command line history
filename completion
changing your .login and rc files.
Redirection
redirecting STDOUT >
redirecting STDIN <
redirecting both
redirecting STDERR 2>
piping STDOUT to STDIN |
Email and News clients
mail
mail is primitive, suitable mainly for sending short notes to someone.
man mail
command line mode: mail [-s subject] to-addr
ctrl-d on blank line to terminate entry.
interactive mode: mail
will list all your mail
? to get minimal help
d message list: delete messages in list
u message list: undelete messages in list
R message list: Reply
m user list: mail to users
message number: show/read message
quit: quit!
talking to sendmail
input | /path/to/sendmail -v recipient
pine
pine (Pine Is Not Elm) is a full-featured mail reader. It also has some support for news reading. It is most famous
as the source for the pico text editor. It is not installed by default on unix boxes (due to copyright issues) but is still very popular.
man pine
pine
menus at the bottom of the screen
all message composition is done in pico unless specified otherwise
auto-quoting
customization available in the Setup | Config menus.
powerful sorting mechanism with sort
full-screen app, so may appear to run more slowly
elm
man elm
menus frequently at the bottom of the screen
all message composition is done in vi or default editor unless specified otherwise
Remember, your login is based on your machine's hostname, not on any other number.
~/[initials] refers to the subdirectory under your homedir, named after your initials. Everything except for .dotfiles will be stored in your ~/[initials] directory.
