What Are the Different Shells Available in Unix?
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What are the different types of shells available?

Shell Types

  • Bourne shell (sh)
  • Korn shell (ksh)
  • Bourne Again shell (bash)
  • POSIX shell (sh)

How many types of shell variables are there in Unix?

A shell can have two types of variables: Environment variables – Variables that are exported to all processes spawned by the shell.
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Shell Environment.

Shell Type Line to Add to the User Initialization File
C shell setenv VARIABLE value Example: setenv MAIL /var/mail/ripley
Alexander Ross

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