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C Shell
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ALSO CALLED: Tab C Shell, csh, and tcsh
DEFINITION: C shell is the UNIX shell (command execution program, often called a command interpreter) created by Bill Joy at the University of California at Berkeley as an alternative to UNIX's original shell, the Bourne shell. These two UNIX shells, along with the Korn
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C SHELL DEFINITION (continued): … shell, are the three most commonly used shells. The C shell program name is csh, and the shell prompt (the character displayed to indicate readiness for user input) is the % symbol. The C shell was invented for programmers who prefer a syntax similar to that of the C programming language. The other popular member of the C shell family is called tcsh (for Tab C shell) and is an extended version of C shell. Some of tcsh's added features are: …
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