[PLUG] stupid shell question
David Fleck
dcf at aracnet.com
Tue Mar 11 18:23:02 UTC 2003
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Sean Dixon wrote:
> I am finding that when I use basic commands that appear in my UNIX/Linux
> books, I am returned with 'command not found' - commands like PS1=,
> aliases, tree, ed
>
> My first thought was that it had something to do with the shell I was
> using. I admit I do not have a strong grasp on the difference in
> shells, so a lot of it is guessing.
Could you post some specific examples of what you are trying to do and
what the response is? 'PS1=' isn't a command, as far as I know. Neither
is 'aliases'. 'tree' brings up some sort of Motif demo. ('ed' does bring
up ed.)
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David Fleck
dcf at aracnet.com
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