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in winxp del *.* /Q /S
to get the current shell :echo $0also Use the command ps with -p {pid} option, which selects the processes whose process ID numbers appear in pid. Use following command to find out what shell you are in:ps -p $$
A basic shell program should essentially emulate a command prompt with a very limited set of commands, such as exit to close the shell and possibly cd to change the current directory. Shell's are typically used to spawn other processes, but a basic shell will typically limit which processes may be allowed to run.
# shell script example if [ -f $1 ]; then echo $1 is a file elsif [ -d $1 ]; then echo $1 is a directory fi
see : Write_a_shell_program_using_the_if-the-else_to_test_whether_a_variable_name_is_a_directory_or_a_file
That's what cp(1) program is good for: cp this that "something else" /dir/to/
echo 'print 24*60*60,"\n"' | bcorecho '86400'
The following simple shell command lists the contents of a directory (verbose), and redirects the output to 'newfile.txt': ls -l > newfile.txt See related links.
for i in * do if [ -d $i ]; then echo $i directory >> /tmp/directories fi done
If you are asking about a shell script, just create a text file with the commands you want to execute inside it. Then, make the file executable and readable and you have a shell script file. A shell program is more complicated; you need to support the user features that most users would expect a shell program or shell interpreter to do. I would suggest studying the source code of a current shell program to see how to go about implementing one of your own.
No. All commands are executed in userspace. If the command is not built-in to the shell, it will look in a binary directory (/sbin, /bin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin) for a program matching that name.
ls-lS | tail-1