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Customize and use the shell environment

Weight 4
Description Candidates should be able to customize shell environments to meet users' needs. Candidates should be able to modify global and user profiles.
Key Knowledge Areas
  • Set environment variables (e.g. PATH) at login or when spawning a new shell.
  • Write BASH functions for frequently used sequences of commands.
  • Maintain skeleton directories for new user accounts.
  • Set command search path with the proper directory.

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:

Configuration::/etc/profile
Command::env
Command::export
Command::set
Command::unset
Configuration::~/.bash_profile
Configuration::~/.bash_login
Configuration::~/.profile
Configuration::~/.bashrc
Configuration::~/.bash_logout
function
Command::alias
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