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FIGURE 5.1 The Midnight Commander shell.
Midnight Commander is a program ripe for exploration. The first few times you work with
it, play around a little. Go to a menu, or press an F key to see what a command does.
The help files are indeed helpful! This is a full-featured file manager. View hidden files if
you like, access FTP sites, upload or download files (at the same time, if you want to), run
executables, and change permissions (if you can) and owners with the ChMod and ChOwn
commands. In short, just about everything you can do with a file in a shell, you can do
with Midnight Commander. It even has a command history.
TIP
The KDE Konsole lets you open a new Midnight Commander session from the Session
menu. Choose regular or Root (with your password).
ksh and ash
The other shell choices may be less popular, but are still valid. Here??™s a quick overview:
. Korn shell (ksh)??”This shell, written by David Korn, was the first popular shell to try
to combine the scripting features of the Bourne shell and the interactive features of
the C shell.
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