Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to:

• Find a prompt.

• Tell what shell you are in.

• Determine what shells are available.

• Use a temporary shell.

• Change your shell.

• View the contents of environment variables.

• List all environment variables.

• Pipe to more.

• Use the more command to view a file.

• Set environment variables on the fly.

• Add a directory to the PATH variable.

• Go to your home directory.

• View hidden files.

• Add an environment variable for a user.

• Add to the global path.

• Change the bash prompt.

• Find where you are.

• Use command completion.

• Use session history.

• Open and save files in vi and Pico.

• Send email with Linux email.