Shell Command Library

Important Note: Shell commands may vary in syntax and usage from one type of shell to
another. The shell command library here is provided as general references. Use the man
command to see how a command is used in a particular shell.

C Shell Commands and What They Do

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The C shell provides the following built-in commands:

# Marks a command.

alias Displays alias.

bg Resumes job in the background.

break Resumes execution after the loop.

breaksw Breaks from a switch command; resumes after the endsw command.

case Defines a label in a switch command.

cd Changes directory.

chdir Changes directory, same as cd.

continu Continues a loop.

e

default Specifies the default case in a switch.

dirs Displays the directory stack.

echo Writes arguments to the standard output of the shell.

eval Evaluates a command.

exec Executes the command in the current shell.

exit Exits the shell.

fg Brings a job in the foreground.

foreach Specifies a looping control statement and execute a sequence of commands

until reaching an end command.

glob Writes arguments to the standard output of the shell, like the echo command,
but without the new line.

goto Continues execution after the specified label.

hashsta Displays hash table statistics.

t
history Displays the history list.

if Executes a command if condition met.

jobs Lists active jobs.

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kill Sends a signal to a process. term (terminate) is the default signal.

limit Sets or list system resource limits.

login Logs on.

logout Logs out.

nice Changes the priority of commands run in the shell.

nohup Ignores the hangup signal.

notify Notifies the user about changes in job status.

onintr Tells the shell what to do on interrupt.

popd Pops the top directory off the directory stack and changes to the new top
directory.

pushd Exchanges the top two elements of the directory stack.

rehash Re-computes the hash table of the contents of the directories in the path
shell variable.

repeat Repeats the execution of a command.

set Displays or set the value of a shell variable.

setenv Sets environment variables.

shift Shifts shell arguments.

source Reads commands from a script.

stop Stops a background job.

suspend Stops the current shell.

switch Starts a switch.

time Displays the time used to execute commands.

umask Shows or set file permissions.

unalias Removes command alias.

unhash Disables the internal hash table.

unlimit Removes limitations on system Resource.

unset Deletes shell variables.

unsetenv Deletes environment variables.

wait Waits for background jobs to complete.

while … Executes the commands between the while and matching end statements
end repeatedly.

@ Displays or set the values of all the shell variables.

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