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An alias will last for the life of the shell session. Regularly used aliases can be set from the shell's rc file (such as .bashrc) so that they will be available upon the start of the corresponding shell session. The alias commands may either be written in the config file directly or sourced from a separate file.
File writing, >, and appending, >>, Here documents, <<, Here strings, <<<, which allow parameters to be used as input, and; A redirection operator, >|, which can force overwriting of a file when a shell's "noclobber" setting is enabled; Command name lookup is performed, in the following order: Commands internal to the shell: Shell aliases,
This was a plain text file with simple key–value pairs (e.g. DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\\ANSI.SYS) until MS-DOS 6, which introduced an INI-file style format. There was also a standard plain text batch file named AUTOEXEC.BAT that ran a series of commands on boot. Both these files were retained up to Windows 98SE, which still ran on top of MS-DOS.
The "rc" suffix on some Unix configuration files (for example, ".vimrc"), is a remnant of the RUNCOM ancestry of Unix shells. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The PWB shell or Mashey shell, sh , was an upward-compatible version of the Thompson shell, augmented by John Mashey and others and distributed with the Programmer's Workbench UNIX , circa 1975–1977.
JP Software command-line processors provide user-configurable colorization of file and directory names in directory listings based on their file extension and/or attributes through an optionally defined %COLORDIR% environment variable. For the Unix/Linux shells, this is a feature of the ls command and the terminal.
Command line editing; Auto-completion of file names and variables as well as programmable completion at the command line; Alias argument selectors; the ability to define an alias to take arguments supplied to it and apply them to the commands that it refers to. Tcsh is the only shell that provides this feature (in lieu of functions).
By voting Trump back into office, voters “soundly repudiated Biden’s radical open borders policies” that “made less Americans safe,” said Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison.
Extended file globbing allows file specification without needing to run an external program such as find; Improved variable/array handling (non-zero-based numbering) Editing of multi-line commands in a single buffer; Spelling correction and autofill of command names (and optionally arguments, assumed to be file names)