Hi, i am trying to mimic a linux shell which takes it linux commands but i am having some problems... example i want the user to key in the command...for example "ls -a -l myfile" so i would read ...

My machine has CentOS and I'd like to have bash shell is my default shell every time when I log in , how do i do that ? How do I know if it works? I'm so confuse about shell. Thank you.

I need to execute a command which returns an integer and compare that result to the result of another integer-returning command and get back 0 or 1 if the integers match or not. Here's what I have:...

This is my first attempt at a Linux shell script.  I need something to start a particular perl program when the system boots up.  (Ubuntu 8).   The program is a bit particular.  To start from the...

I need to pass in a number of arguments to a shell script. The exact format that the specification calls for is as follows: scriptname  --name=value --name2=value2 In essense, the arguements ...