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Using tcsh
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o An Introduction to tcsh
o Command Completion
o Wildcards
o Command History
o Aliases
o Input and Output Redirection
o Pipelines
o Prompts
o Job Control
o Key Bindings
o Other Neat Stuff
# Correcting Spelling Errors
# Precommands
# Change Directory Commands
# Monitoring Logins and Logouts
o Customizing tcsh
o tcsh Command Summary
o tcsh Variables
o Summary
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12
Using tcsh
The last two chapters introduced you to the Bourne Again Shell (bash)
and the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh). This chapter introduces a
third shell, tcsh. This chapter shows you how tcsh supports the
following:
* Command-line completion
* Command history and aliases
* Input and output redirection
* Pipelines
* Changing your prompts
* Job control
* Key bindings
* Spelling correction
In addition to these topics, we will see how you can customize tcsh to
suit your tastes. You will also be introduced to several important
tcsh commands and variables.
Rounding out the chapter is a section on neat little features that
tcsh provides that are not available in any of the other shell
programs we have discussed.
An Introduction to tcsh
tcsh is a modified version of the C shell (csh). It is fully
backward-compatible with csh, but it contains many new features that
make user interaction much easier. The biggest improvements over the
csh are in the areas of command-line editing and history navigation.
Command Completion
Just like pdksh and bash, tcsh supports command-line completion. You
invoke command-line completion in tcsh exactly the same way as you do
in bash: by pressing the Tab key at any point while you are typing a
command.
When you press the Tab key, tcsh tries to complete the command by
matching what has been typed with any file in the directory that the
command is referring to. For example, assume that you typed the
following command and then pressed the Tab key:
emacs hello
Here, tcsh will try to match the letters hello with any file (or
subdirectory) in the current directory. If there is a single file in
the current directory that begins with the letters hello, tcsh fills
in the rest of the filename for you. Now assume that you typed the
following command and then pressed the Tab key:
emacs /usr/bin/hello
In this case, tcsh would try to match the letters hello with any file
in the /usr/bin directory. From these examples, you can see that you
must give tcsh something to go on before asking it to complete the
command for you.
Another example of using command-line completion is as follows: Assume
that the directory that you are currently in contains these files:
News/ bin/ mail/ sample.txt testfile ttd.txt
If you want to print the sample.txt file, you could type the following
command:
lpr sample.txt
Using command-line completion, you could get away with typing the
following command and then pressing the Tab key:
lpr s
At this point, tcsh attempts to complete the command and finds that
the only file that can possibly match what was typed so far is the
sample.txt file. tcsh would then complete the command by putting the
following text on the command line:
lpr sample.txt
You can now either confirm that this is the intended command by
pressing the Enter key, or you can edit the command if it isn't what
you intended.
Wildcards
tcsh enables you to use wildcards in your commands. It supports the
same three wildcards as bash and pdksh:
* matches any character or any number of characters.
? matches any single character.
[...] matches any single character contained within the brackets.
The * wildcard can be used to perform some of the same functions as
command-line completion. If you entered a command like
cd t*
and only one subdirectory in the current directory begins with the
letter t, this command would behave the same as if you had used
command-line completion by pressing the Tab key.
The * matches any character or any number of characters, so the shell
will replace the t* with the file in the directory that matches the
wildcard pattern.
This will work reliably only if there is one file in the directory
that starts with the letter t. If more than one file in the directory
starts with the letter t, the shell will try to replace t* with the
list of filenames in the directory that match the wildcard pattern,
and the cd command will make the first directory in this list the
working directory. This will end up being the file that comes first
alphabetically and may or may not be the intended file.
A case that is more suited to using the * wildcard is if you want to
perform the same operation on a number of files that have similar
filenames. For example, assume the current directory contains the
following files:
Mail/ atc1.stk atc2.stk bin/ borl.stk cdrom.txt lfi.stk temp/
If you want to print both of the files that start with atc and end
with the .stk extension, you could do so by typing
lpr a*.stk
This command will do the job, because there are no other files in the
directory that start with the letter a and have the .stk extension.
Using the ? wildcard, the following command will accomplish the same
thing:
lpr atc?.stk
Using the [...] wildcard, you could enter the following command to get
the same files to print:
lpr atc[12].stk
Command History
The tcsh shell provides a mechanism for accessing the command history
that is similar to ones provided with bash and pdksh. The shell
remembers the last history commands that have been entered into the
shell (where history is a user-definable tcsh variable).
tcsh stores the text of the last history commands in a history list.
When you log into your account, the history list is initialized from a
history file. The default filename for the history file is .history,
but you can change it using the histfile tcsh variable. This file is
located in your home directory. Notice that the file begins with a
period. This means that the file is a hidden file and will appear in a
directory listing only if you use the -a or -A options of the ls
command.
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NOTE: In order for the history list to be saved in the history
file, you must make sure that the savehist variable is set to the
number of commands that you want to be saved. Refer to the .login
file listing in the "Customizing tcsh" section of this chapter for
an example of setting this variable.
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The simplest way of using the history list is to use the up and down
arrow keys to scroll through the commands that were entered earlier.
Pressing the up arrow key will cause the last command entered to
appear on the command line. Pressing the up arrow key again will put
the command before that on the command line, and so on. If you move up
in the command buffer past the command that you wanted, you can move
down the history list one command at a time by pressing the down arrow
key.
The command that is on the command line can be edited. You can use the
left and right arrow keys to move along the command line, and you can
insert text at any point. You can also delete text from the command
line by using the Backspace or Delete keys. Most users should find
these simple editing commands sufficient, but for those who do not,
tcsh also supports a wide range of equivalent emacs and vi editing
commands. See the "Key Bindings" section of this chapter for more
information on vi and emacs command-line editing.
Another method of using the history file is to display and edit the
history list using a number of other editing commands that tcsh
provides. The history command can be invoked by any one of three
different methods. The first method has the following command-line
syntax:
history [-hr] [n]
This form of the history command displays the history list to the
screen. The n option is used to specify the number of commands to
display. If the n option is not used, the history command will display
the entire history list. The -h option causes history to remove the
command numbers and timestamps that are usually present in the output
of the history command. The -r option tells history to display the
commands in reverse order, starting with the most recent command. The
following command displays the last five commands that were entered:
history 5
The second method of invoking the history command is used to modify
the contents of the history file or the history list. It has the
following command-line syntax:
history -S | -L | -M [filename]
The -S option writes the history list to a file. The -L option appends
a history file to the current history list. The -M option merges the
contents of the history file with the current history list and sorts
the resulting list by the timestamp contained with each command.
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NOTE: All of the options for the second form of the history command
use the filename option as the name of the history file. If no
filename is specified, the history command will use the value of
the histfile variable. If the histfile variable isn't set, it will
use the ~/.history (home directory) file.
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The history command using the -c option clears the current history
list.
In addition to the history command and its options, tcsh also contains
many history navigation and editing commands. The following commands
are used to navigate through the history list:
* !n re-executes the command with the history number of n.
* !-n re-executes the command that is n commands from the end of the
history list.
* !! re-executes the last command that was entered.
* !c re-executes the last command in the history list that begins
with the letter c.
* !?c? re-executes the last command in the history list that
contains the letter c.
The history editing commands enable you to replace words and letters
in previously entered commands as well as add words to the end of
previously entered commands. More information on these editing
commands can be found by referring to the tcsh man page. You can view
this man page by entering the following command at the shell prompt:
man tcsh
Aliases
Command aliases are commands that you can specify and execute. Alias
commands are usually abbreviations of other Linux commands. You tell
tcsh to execute a Linux command whenever it encounters the alias. For
example, if you entered the following alias command:
alias ls 'ls -F'
the ls -F command would be substituted for the ls command each time
the ls command was used.
If you decide after you enter an alias that you don't need or want
that alias to exist any longer, you can use the tcsh unalias command
to delete that alias:
unalias cd
After you use the unalias command to remove an alias, the alias will
no longer exist, and trying to execute that alias will cause tcsh to
return a command not found error message.
Some aliases that you might want to define are:
* alias ll 'ls -l'
* alias ls 'ls -F'
If you are a DOS user and are accustomed to using DOS file commands,
you might also want to define the following aliases:
* alias dir 'ls'
* alias copy 'cp'
* alias rename 'mv'
* alias md 'mkdir'
* alias rd 'rmdir'
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NOTE: When you define aliases, quotation marks are necessary only
if the command within them contains spaces or other special
characters.
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If you enter the alias command without any arguments, it will print to
the screen all of the aliases that are already defined. The following
listing illustrates sample output from the alias command:
alias ls 'ls -F'
alias dir 'ls'
alias ll 'ls -l'
alias md 'mkdir'
alias rd 'rmdir'
Input and Output Redirection
The standard input and output of a command can be redirected using the
same syntax that is used by bash and pdksh. The < character is used
for input redirection, and the > character is used for output
redirection. The following command redirects the standard input of the
cat command to the .cshrc file:
cat < .cshrc
In practice, input redirection isn't used very often because most
commands that require input from a file support passing the filename
as an argument to the command.
Output redirection is used much more frequently. The following command
redirects the standard output of the cat command to the file named
cshenv (which has the effect of storing the contents of the .cshrc and
.login files in one file named cshenv):
cat .cshrc .login > cshenv
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NOTE: The file to which output is being redirected is created if it
does not exist and is overwritten without warning if it already
exists.
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Pipelines
tcsh pipelines, just like bash and pdksh pipelines, are a way to
string together a series of Linux commands. This means that the output
from the first command in the pipeline is used as the input to the
second command in the pipeline. The output from the second command in
the pipeline is used as input to the third command in the pipeline,
and so on. The output from the last command in the pipeline is the
output that the user will actually see. This output will be displayed
to the screen (or put into a file if output redirection was specified
on the command line).
You can tell tcsh to create a pipeline by typing two or more commands
separated by the | character. The following command illustrates an
example of using a tcsh pipeline:
cat file1 file2 | wc -l
The cat command in this pipeline appends file2 to the end of file1 and
passes the resulting file to the wc command. The wc command prints to
the screen the total number of lines contained in the resulting file.
Prompts
tcsh has three levels of user prompts. The first-level prompt is what
you see when tcsh is waiting for you to type a command. The default
prompt is the % character. This prompt can be customized by assigning
a new value to the prompt tcsh variable:
set prompt="%t$"
This example would change the first-level prompt to the current time
followed by a dollar sign.
The second-level prompt is displayed when tcsh is waiting for input
when in a while or for loop (used in shell programming, discussed in
Chapter 13, "Shell Programming"). The default for the second-level
prompt is %R?, where %R is a special character sequence that displays
the status of the parser. You can change the second-level prompt by
setting the value of the prompt2 tcsh variable. For example:
set prompt2="?"
changes the second-level prompt to a question mark.
The third-level prompt is used when tcsh displays the corrected
command line when automatic spelling correction is in effect. This
prompt is set using the prompt3 variable, and it has a default value
of CORRECT>%R (y|n|e)?. See the "Correcting Spelling Errors" section
for more information on this feature.
tcsh supports special character codes in its prompt variables. These
codes are similar to the codes that bash supports in its prompts. The
main difference between the two is that the syntax for using them is
different. Table 12.1 lists the most commonly used special character
codes.
Table 12.1. tcsh prompt special character codes.
Character Code Meaning
%/ Displays the current working directory.
%h, %!, ! These codes all display the current history number.
%t, %@ These codes both display the time of day.
%n Displays the username.
%d Displays the current day of the week.
%w Displays the current month.
%y Displays the current year.
The following is an example of setting the prompt variable:
set prompt="%h %/"
This command sets the prompt to display the history number of the
current command, followed by the current working directory.
Job Control
Job control refers to the ability to control the execution behavior of
a currently running process. Specifically, you can suspend a running
process and cause it to resume running at a later time. tcsh keeps
track of all the processes that it starts as a result of user input.
You can suspend a running process or restart a suspended one at any
time during the life of that process.
Pressing the Ctrl-Z key sequence suspends a running process. The bg
command restarts a suspended process in the background, and the fg
command restarts a process in the foreground.
These commands are most often used when you want to run a command in
the background but by accident start it in the foreground. When a
command is started in the foreground, it locks the shell from any
further user interaction until the command completes execution. This
is usually fine because most commands take only a few seconds to
execute. If the command you're running is going to take a long time,
you would typically start the command in the background so that you
could continue to use tcsh to enter other commands.
For example, if you started a command that was going to take a long
time in the foreground, such as
find / -named "test" > find.out
your shell will be tied up for several minutes. If you have done this
and want to cause the find command to continue executing in the
background, you could enter the following:
control-z
bg
This would suspend the find command and then restart it in the
background. The find command would continue to execute, and you would
regain control of tcsh.
Key Bindings
Like the pdksh, tcsh provides the ability to change and add key
bindings. The tcsh implementation of key bindings is more powerful
than the way key bindings are done in pdksh.
With tcsh you can bind to things other than the built-in editor
commands. This means that you can bind a key to a UNIX command, for
example. tcsh also enables you to bind vi editing commands, whereas
pdksh only allows the binding of emacs editing commands.
Key bindings can be very useful, especially if you're using a favorite
editor other than emacs or vi. The basic syntax for defining key
bindings is
bindkey [option] <instring or keyname> <outstring or command>
The options that bindkey supports are not discussed in this book. If
you want to learn about the bindkey options, refer to the tcsh man
page. The basic function of the bindkey command is to bind the key
sequence contained in the first argument to the command contained in
the second argument.
The following list gives some of the most useful editing commands that
you can bind key sequences to, along with the default key binding for
that command. You can list all the bindings that are defined in tcsh
by typing the bindkey command without any arguments.
* beginning-of-line (^A): Moves the cursor to the beginning of the
command line.
* backward-char (^B): Moves the cursor back one character.
* end-of-line (^E): Moves the cursor to the end of the command line.
* forward-char (^F): Moves the cursor forward one character.
* backward-delete-char (^H): Deletes the character to the left of
the cursor.
* kill-line (^K): Deletes all of the characters to the right of the
cursor.
* clear-screen (^L): Removes all of the text from the shell window.
* down-history (^N): Moves down one command in the history list.
* up-history (^P): Moves up one command in the history list.
* kill-whole-line (^U): Deletes all of the characters on the current
line.
All of these commands are the same whether you're in emacs or vi
insert mode. tcsh supports many more editing commands than are listed
here. To see what these commands are, refer to the tcsh man page.
The following are examples of setting key bindings:
bindkey ^W kill-whole-line
bindkey ^S beginning-of-line
Other Neat Stuff
tcsh supports a few neat features that none of the other shells
discussed in this book support. This section lists a few of the most
useful of these extended features.
Correcting Spelling Errors
This feature, which is not available with any of the other shells
discussed in this book, is a dream come true for many people
(including me). If you're plagued by recurring typos, this feature
might be enough to cause you to use tcsh over any of the other shells.
You can tell tcsh to correct spelling errors in a command that you
typed, and you also can tell it to automatically try to correct
commands that it can't figure out.
The first function isn't quite as useful, because you must know that
you have made a typing mistake before you actually execute the
command. This feature is invoked by pressing Esc-S on the command line
before you press Enter.
For example, suppose you wanted to change to the /usr/X11R6/X11
directory, so you typed the following command on the command line:
cd /usr/X11RT/bun
If you caught the typing errors before you executed the command (by
pressing the Enter key), you could correct the errors by pressing
Esc-S. tcsh will try to correct the spelling of the command. It would
change the command to read
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
You could now press the Enter key, and the command would execute just
as you wanted. Obviously this command has some limitations, because
the shell can't (yet) read your mind, but for simple character
transpositions or capitalization errors, it works very nicely.
The second method of instructing tcsh to perform spelling corrections
on your commands is to set the correct tcsh variable. This variable,
depending on what options you use, will tell tcsh to try to correct
spelling errors in command names or anywhere in the command. The
syntax for setting the correct variable is one of the following:
set correct=cmd
or
set correct=all
After you set the correct variable, whenever you enter a command that
tcsh doesn't understand, it will automatically check to see if the
command has any spelling errors. If it finds possible spelling errors,
it gives you the corrected command and asks you if the new command is
what you intended. For example, if you had set the correct variable
with the all option and then entered the following command:
cd /usr/gmes
tcsh would respond with the following prompt on the command line:
CORRECT>cd /usr/games (y|n|e)?
If you respond to the prompt by pressing the y (yes) key, tcsh will
execute the corrected command. If you respond to the prompt by
pressing the n (no) key, tcsh will execute the command that you
initially entered, which will in turn will cause an error message to
be displayed.
If you respond to the prompt by pressing the e (edit) key, tcsh will
put the command that you entered back on the command line and enable
you to edit it.
Precommands
tcsh supports a way of executing a command prior to displaying each
command prompt. This is done through the use of a special variable
called precmd. If the precmd variable is set, the command that it is
set to will be executed before the command prompt is displayed
on-screen. For example, assume that you set the precmd variable using
the following command:
alias precmd time
After this alias has been declared, the time command will always be
executed before the command prompt is displayed on-screen.
Change Directory Commands
tcsh also supports change directory commands. These commands are
executed only when the current directory changes (usually as a result
of executing the cd command). This type of command is probably more
useful than the precommands just mentioned, because there are times
when you might want to know something about a directory that you just
entered.
This feature is supported in the same way precommands are supported,
only you must provide an alias for a different variable. The variable
used for this is cwdcmd. If this variable is aliased to a command,
that command will be executed each time you change current working
directories.
A common use for this variable is to display the current directory to
the screen. This can be done by entering the command
alias cwdcmd 'pwd'
This will display the name of the new directory each time a new
directory is entered.
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NOTE: You should not put a cd command into cwdcmd. Doing so could
cause an infinite loop that would cause you to lose control of
tcsh.
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Monitoring Logins and Logouts
tcsh provides a mechanism that enables you to watch for any user who
logs on or off the system. It does this through a tcsh variable named
watch.
The watch variable contains a set of user ID and terminal number
pairs. These pairs can contain wildcards and also can contain the word
"any," which tells tcsh to match any user or terminal. The syntax for
setting the watch variable is
set watch=(<user> <terminal>)
The user in this command refers to a Linux user ID. terminal refers to
a Linux terminal device number.
Most people would use this capability to watch for friends logging
onto the system. For example, if you were waiting for a person with
the username jules to come to work in the morning, you could set the
following watch variable:
set watch=(jules any)
This command would inform you when a person with the user ID jules
logged into the system on any terminal. tcsh defaults to checking the
defined watches every 10 minutes. If you want to know with greater or
lesser frequency, you can change this default by passing the number of
minutes to wait between checks as the first parameter to the watch
variable. For example, to check every five minutes to see if jules has
logged in, you would use the following watch variable:
set watch=(5 jules any)
This will do the same thing as the first command, except it will check
every five minutes instead of every 10 to see if jules has logged in.
Customizing tcsh
I've discussed many ways of customizing tcsh in this chapter. If you
just enter the commands that we have discussed at the command line,
the changes you make will be lost every time you log out of the
system. This section describes how to store these changes in a file
that will be executed each time you start tcsh.
Two initialization files are important to tcsh. The first is called
the login file. The commands in this file are executed when you first
log into Linux. The contents of the default login file are shown in
Listing 12.1.
Listing 12.1. Default csh.login file.
if ($?prompt) then
umask 022
set cdpath = ( /usr/spool )
set notify
set history = 100
setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/openwin
setenv MANPATH /usr/local/man:/usr/man/preformat:/usr/man:/usr/X11r6/man:
_/usr/openwin/man
setenv MINICOM "-c on"
setenv HOSTNAME "`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`"
set path = ( $path /usr/X11r6/bin /usr/andrew/bin
_$OPENWINHOME/bin /usr/games . )
endif
# I had problems with the Backspace key installed by 'tset,' but you might want
# to try it anyway, instead of the 'setenv term.....' below it.
# eval 'tset -sQ "$term"'
# setenv term linux
#if ! $?TERM setenv TERM linux
# set to "linux" for unknown term type:
if ("$TERM" == "") setenv TERM linux
if ("$TERM" == "unknown" setenv TERM linux
set prompt = "%m:%~%# "
eval 'dircolors -t' # set up color-ls variables
alias ls 'ls -F'
if ( { tty —silent } ) then >& /dev/null
echo "";fortune;echo ""
endif
This file, csh.login, can be found in the /etc directory. If you want
to change any of the settings found in csh.login, you should copy it
to your home directory and make the changes you want there.
The other file that tcsh makes use of is cshrc. The commands in this
file are executed each time a copy of the tcsh program is run.
Examples of the types of commands that usually appear in this file are
aliases and variable declarations. This file, csh.cshrc, is also
contained in the /etc directory. If you want to make changes to this
file, you should copy it to your home directory and make your changes
there.
When you first log in to Linux, tcsh executes the /etc/csh.cshrc file,
followed by the /etc/csh.login file. It then checks your home
directory to see if you have a personal copy of the csh.cshrc file.
This file can be named either .tcshrc or .cshrc. If you have one of
these files in your home directory, tcsh will execute it next.
tcsh next checks to see if you have your own copy of the csh.login
file in your home directory. This file must be named .login. If you do
have a .login file in your home directory, it will be executed next.
Whenever you start another copy of tcsh after you log in to the
system, it will execute the commands that are in the /etc/csh.cshrc
file and then check your home directory to see if there is a .tcshrc
or a .cshrc file there.
tcsh Command Summary
Here are some of the most useful tcsh commands:
* alias: Used to set and display aliases, command nicknames that can
be set by the user.
* bg: Background command. Forces a suspended process to continue
running in the background.
* bindkey: Enables users to change the editing actions that are
associated with a key sequence.
* cd: Changes the current working directory to the directory
specified.
* exit: Terminates the shell.
* fg: Foreground command. Forces a suspended process to continue
running in the foreground.
* history: Enables users to display and modify the contents of the
history list and the history file.
* kill: Terminates another process.
* logout: Terminates a login shell.
* set: Used to set the value of tcsh variables.
* source: Reads and executes the contents of a file. This command is
discussed in more detail in Chapter 13.
* unalias: Used to remove aliases that have been defined using the
alias command.
tcsh Variables
Here are some of the most useful tcsh variables:
* autocorrect: If this is set, tcsh will automatically try to
correct command-line spelling errors.
* histfile: The name of the file that is used to store the command
history.
* history: The size of the history list.
* home: The user's home directory.
* path: The search path that tcsh uses when looking for executable
programs.
* prompt: The first-level prompt that is displayed on the command
line.
* prompt2: The second-level prompt that is displayed when a for,
foreach, or while loop is expecting input.
* prompt3: The third-level prompt that is displayed when tcsh has
attempted to correct a spelling error in a command.
* savehist: This variable must be set to the number of history
commands that you want to save, if you want tcsh to save the
history list when you log out.
* watch: Contains a list of user terminal pairs to watch for logins
and logouts.
Summary
The last three chapters have presented the fundamental commands and
concepts of the three most popular UNIX shells. tcsh is the most
feature-rich shell of those presented, but that doesn't necessarily
mean that it's the best shell for you to use. In the end, this
decision will probably be based on your personal preference as opposed
to what features are offered.
The next chapter looks at the programming languages that are provided
by each of the shells we have discussed.
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