Bourne Shell Command Line Examples

Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne

∟Bourne Shell Command Line Examples

This section provides some Bourne shell command line examples with explanations.

Below are some Bourne shell command line examples with explanations:

set
      Displays the values of all shell variables.

PS1=\$
      Sets the prompt to be the dollar sign $

D=`pwd`
      Sets the current working directory to variable d.

echo $D
      Displays the value in variable D

date
      Displays the date.

cat > myself
(Type in some words about yourself)
^D
      Creates a file and lets you to enter text from the keyboard.

ls -l
      Lists the contents of the current directory in long format.

cat myself
      Displays the contents of "myself" on the screen.

sleep 200
^C
      A dummy command. It runs for 200 seconds.
      "Ctrl-C" cancels the execution of any command.

sleep 200
^Z
      "Ctrl-Z" stops the execution of any command.

command &
      Runs the command in the background