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What is the administrator's prompt in the command line on unix?
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The usual indication of running as the administrator in Unix is show a prompt that contains the '#' character as either the prompt or part of the prompt.
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What is prompt in unix?
The prompt is an indication that the system is waiting for work to do, i.e. waiting for you type in a command.
What is a secondary prompt in UNIX?
The secondary prompt (PS2) is used to prompt the user with whatever string they want to indicate a command continuation line. For example, if I use the standard PS2 prompt and type in the command: cat abc def \ The shell will prompt me for the rest of the line with a ? mark or some other character. I usually set my secondary prompt for something more interesting, such as: PS2='more ? ' So that I know that the shell wants more information before executing the command line.
Command prompt on a Mac Machine?
Command Prompt is the command-line interpreter used within the Windows operating system. As Mac OS X is based on the Unix operating system it uses the a Unix Shell command-line interpreter. You can access the Shell by running the Terminal application which can be found in the Utilities folder which is within the Applications folder.
What command is used to create a folder in the command prompt?
In Windows and Unix-based and Unix-like systems, the command is mkdir (however in Windows a shortcut md can be used as well).
What Windows command prompt command does the same thing as the cat command in Unix?
The 'type' command does approximately (but not exactly) the same thing as the 'cat' command.
Why GUI not used in UNIX?
A GUI can be used in Unix (in fact, several). Most power users don't use the GUI because it can be too limiting. The power of what you can do in Unix is at the command line, not using a GUI to click on buttons. Of course, this could be said about most operating systems; the GUI is there for user convenience but most administrators use the command line for most of their work.
How do you change commpand prompt form to in unix?
Use the shell variable PS1 to set the command prompt to whatever you need.
How can you identify by seeing in the prompt whether the command is external or internal in unix?
You really can't. There is nothing in a prompt that would give that information.
How do you log into Unix?
You can log in via telnet or ssh protocol for a command line prompt environment to Unix, or you can use a graphical user interface such as KDE or Gnome, or the CDE environment via X-windows. In any of these protocols, you must supply a username and password to successfully log into the Unix system.
Does UNIX have alternatives to the command line user interface?
Yes, Unix has several variants of Graphical User Interfaces that may be used instead of the command line if the user wishes it.
Why is Unix called a command interpreter?
Unix and Unix-like systems would be referred to as command interpreters because of the nature of their interface. These systems are interacted with via a shell (i.e. Bash), which is a 'command-line interface' where the user types in text commands and they are executed by the system. This is in contrast with modern operating systems where the primary method of interaction is via a 'graphical user interface' or GUI, where the system is represented with graphics (like windows, cursors, toolbars etc.). These modern OS's still include command-line interfaces, like Command Prompt in Windows and the Terminal in OSX.
Which command in UNIX can search a pattern in documents and list them in line format?
Use the 'grep' command
