CIS 3355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Centos, Shell Builtin, Desktop Environment

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Computer Information Systems
• Course: CIS 3355
• Professor: Miertschin Susan

Document Summary

In the centos gnome desktop, launch the gnome terminal program by selecting the terminal menu entry from the system application area. Open tab: opens a new session tab in the existing terminal window window copy: copies highlighted text in the current session tab to the clipboard. Commands: the type program provides quick information about a command or application, such as whether or not it"s an internal command or an external program, $ type cd, cd is a shell builtin. The man pages are organized into separate sections, numbered 1 through 8. It displays information in a tree-like structure, allowing a user to peruse through separate branches in the information tree. Shell features: command completion searches for commands that match the text that a user types in the command prompt interface, even if the text is incomplete, how it works, type a few letters of a command.