Previously, I have showed you how to set a new PATH for the csh and tcsh shells. Changing the PATH or CDPATH differs from shell to shell. In this article I will show you how to change the CDPATH for…
Previously, I have showed you how to set a new PATH for the csh and tcsh shells. Changing the PATH or CDPATH differs from shell to shell. In this article I will show you how to change the CDPATH for…
The !$ trick works on bash, csh, tcsh and zsh, but does not work on ksh. The !$ trick is very usefull in the Linux and Unix shells. In the Bash shell, the !$ inserts (and expands) the last used…
Traditionally, the default shell in the Unix systems is dash, for both the users and the system scripts. On GNU / Linux distros, bash has always been the default shell. Some new GNU / Linux distros use dash as the…
In this article I will show you how to set the default text editor in the csh and tcsh shells. The default shell in FreeBSD and PCBSD is the C shell (csh), so this article is usefull for the *BSD…
The PATH is an environment variable that tells the shell where to look for the basic executables (commands) you use (such as ping, useradd, etc). Setting a new PATH depends on the shell, not on the Linux or Unix distro.…
In this tutorial I will show you how to install vim on FreeBSD 9.0 and set it as a default editor: By default, FreeBSD has only vi and gedit, which are both awful. Use only one of the following installations.…