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Exploring other shells - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Exploring other shells
- [Instructor] In addition to very popular shells like Bash and C shell, there are many others, as well. You may choose to use an alternative shell because it's lightweight or because it works in a way that you prefer. While Bash is generally considered to be the most widespread shell, it's good to be familiar with some others, especially older options like the Bourne shell. When you're comparing shells, things can get pretty complicated pretty quickly. You can find tables online listing categories of features and individual functions that map how well the features are supported in the dozens or more of alternative shells, so if you're interested in the gory details, I recommend you look up such a table. In this episode, I want to talk about some of the general characteristics of alternative shells and leave you to explore specifics on your own. While all shells will let you run commands and work with files, other features can vary a lot from shell to shell. Most shells offer the…
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Exploring Windows Subsystem for Linux2m 20s
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Windows Subsystem for Linux7m 20s
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Exploring virtualization5m 28s
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Exploring containers5m 19s
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Exploring Fedora3m 8s
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Ubuntu desktop 18.042m
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Changing the default shell3m 30s
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Exploring other shells2m 5s
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Blocking ads on your network with Pi-hole6m 35s
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Exploring CentOS2m 6s
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Exploring Zsh5m 41s
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Osquery4m 28s
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Exploring fish5m 21s
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Exploring csh and tcsh2m 34s
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Using diff to compare files3m 54s
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Using xargs3m 41s
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Configuring and managing logs4m 32s
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Job control3m 59s
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Using watch and time3m 5s
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Recording a terminal session3m 14s
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Exploring Debian1m 49s
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Exploring SUSE Linux7m 33s
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Exploring Arch Linux16m 44s
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Exploring Alpine Linux6m 18s
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Exploring Linux Mint5m 14s
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Exploring Amazon Linux5m 8s
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UNIX time and the 2038 problem6m 36s
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Visual file management with Midnight Commander5m 42s
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Terminal on the go5m 1s
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FUSE and SSHFS3m 54s
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Removing Linux4m 44s
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WSL distros on Windows 103m 13s
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Embedded Linux4m 25s
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Exploring Netboot2m 43s
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Exploring ZFS3m 53s
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Docker on Linux5m 24s
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