On 04/24/2011 11:43 AM, Mike Coday wrote: /snip/
My spouse used to administer a unix system before retirement, but that was a few years ago, and I don't think she has interest in learning linux command line stuff because it would cut in to gardening time.
/snip/
If your spouse used a C shell or a Bourne shell on her Unix system, the same is available for Linux. The standard shell is bash (Bourne Again SHell) which is a susperset of Bourne. Available shells and their start commands are as follows: Program command names are shown in the third column: Bourne /bin/sh sh Bourne Again /bin/bash bash C shell /bin/csh csh TC shell /bin/tcsh tcsh Korn shell /bin/ksh ksh Z shell /bin/zsh zsh (Anything written for the Bourne shell will run in bash without modification, AFAIK.) One of these is almost surely what she's familiar with, and wouldn't have to learn anything new, and you can set the system so it always starts in one of those shells. (She will know how.) --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org