On 27Jul2006 18:43, Erroll Partridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| i am using ubuntu 5.10 on my pentium 3, 128mb ram hp vectra.
| 1. why is there no man page for the command cd?
"cd" is a shell builtin command. See "man sh" or "man bash".
Likewise there is no separate manual entry for "export" etc.
These are not separate executables but special functionality built in to
the shell command interpreter - they have to be so because they affect
the _internal_ state of the command interpreter, and an external command
can't do that.
I would point out that POSIX does supply a manual entry for "cd". On my
system the command "man 1p cd" will help you out.
| 2. what is the command to list all the available shells in ubuntu 5.10?
I don't know about Ubuntu specificly, but the command _expected_ shells
are often listed in the file /etc/shells. However, any interactive
command interpreter may be used as a shell - that is at the whim of the
user's preferred login shell, which may be any suitable executable.
Common command shells include sh, ash, bash, zsh and (yuck - stay away!) csh
and tcsh.
| 3. how do i, using bash, navigate to a directory/ folder in which
| its folder name consists of a space? cd Linux Software, for example,
| won't work.
You need to quote the name to ensure it remains "one string" to the
command. So:
cd "Linux Software"
Cheers,
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