1.7.
Exercises
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These are some exercises to warm you up for the next chapter:
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Where is the bash program located on your system?
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Use the --version option to find out which version you are running.
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Which shell configuration files are read when you login to your system using the graphical user interface and then opening a terminal window?
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Are the following shells interactive shells? Are they login shells?
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A shell opened by clicking on the background of your graphical desktop, selecting "Terminal" or such from a menu.
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A shell that you get after issuing the command ssh localhost.
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A shell that you get when logging in to the console in text mode.
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A shell obtained by the command xterm &.
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A shell opened by the mysystem.sh script.
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A shell that you get on a remote host, for which you didn't have to give the login and/or password because you use SSH and maybe SSH keys.
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Can you explain why bash does not exit when you type Ctrl+C on the command line?
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Display directory stack content.
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If it is not yet the case, set your prompt so that it displays your location in the file system hierarchy, for instance add this line to ~/.bashrc:
export PS1="\u@\h \w> "
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Display hashed commands for your current shell session.
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How many processes are currently running on your system? Use ps and wc, the first line of output of ps is not a process!
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How to display the system hostname? Only the name, nothing more!
