Resources abound on the Net to help you
do that, and you??™ll learn more about that in Chapter 8 as well. If you don??™t want to write
scripts, use an interactive shell such as tcsh, pd-ksh, or zsh.
If you are a lousy typist, you should certainly consider one of the shells with a spell
checker. tcsh spell checks by default; zsh spell checks with a very quick configuration file
edit. The fancier you want to get with file and command completion, the more you??™ll
probably want zsh.
As recommended at the beginning of this section, try out all the shells, at least once. All
you have to do is type the name of the shell at any other shell prompt. When you??™re done
and want to return to bash, type exit. Look over the documentation. All the shells have
extensive man or info pages. After you??™ve settled on a shell, run the Change Shell (chsh)
program to identify your choice. Then take some time to read those docs thoroughly.
Now that you??™ve settled one of the interminable Linux wars to your satisfaction, you can
choose a text editor.
RUNNING YaST FROM THE SHELL
YaST is a tool older than most GUI desktop environments, and it runs beautifully from
any shell.
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