Basic UNIX environment commands Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

Basic UNIX environment commands

There are several things that need to be done when you log on to UNIX. These login commands define your whole environment and are critical to your success in UNIX. Let’s start with the basic environment command.

Set your shell environment

Your first choice is which shell you want as your default. Your choices are c-Shell (csh), Bourne shell (sh), Korn shell (ksh), or the Bourne Again shell (bsh). In the example below, we set our default shell to the Korn shell.

#***********************************************************
# Set environment to Korn shell.
#***********************************************************

ENV=.kshrc; export ENV

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The above is an excerpt from the "Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook" by Oracle press, authored by Donald K. Burleson.

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