How to change the default shell editor in Ubuntu June 18, 2008
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: editor, Shell, Ubuntu, vi, vim
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Using nano as the default shell editor is probably a great choice for a Gnu/Linux distribution (also) aimed for Unix newbies. If you know your way on the command line however, you’ll scream from frustration for every “i”, “:wq!” or “ZZ” you type and you see the characters in the text you are editing. Specially frustrating in cron. If you don’t know what “i”, “:wq!” or “ZZ” do, don’t worry, nano is working fine for you. (more…)
Use external functions/modules in korn shell (ksh) August 7, 2007
Posted by claudio in Uncategorized.Tags: functions, ksh, modules, Programming, script, Shell, UNIX
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The korn shell is a great shell to write shell scripts. Some functionalities are really nice. By example, you can write your functions or modules in a separate file and use it within your program. The secret lies in the FPATH environment variable. (more…)
