Using csh & tcsh

by Paul DuBois

If you use UNIX, you probably use csh to type commands even if you've never heard of it. It's the standard shell (command line) on most UNIX systems. tcsh is an enhanced version that's freely available and highly recommended. Using csh & tcsh describes from the beginning how to use these shells interactively. More important, it shows how to get your work done faster with less typing. Even if you've used UNIX for years, techniques described in this book can make you more efficient. You'll learn how This book does not cover programming or script writing in csh or tcsh because the tasks are better done with a different shell, such as sh (the Bourne shell) or a language like Perl.

Genres: Reference, Programming, Technology, Computers

242 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Paul DuBois is the author of MySQL (Addison-Wesley Professional); MySQL Cookbook, Using csh & tcsh, and Software Portability with imake (O'Reilly); and MySQL and Perl for the Web (New Riders).

Reviews

[Bob Eager]

The C shell is really powerful. Not much good for scripting, but great as an interactive shell.

The particularly powerful command completion features are described very well in this book; it claims to make you more productive, and it certainly did so for me.

[TK Keanini]

I still use tcsh because old habits die hard.