NWE Help: Others: Shell

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The shell interface uses a text-based display rather than a graphical interface. While it's not nearly as pretty as X Windows, the shell can be very powerful. You can do almost as much work from the shell as you can from X Windows.

• Introduction:: Shell introduction
• Basics:: Basic shell command concepts
• Working directory:: "Where you are" in the shell
• File management:: Managing files with the shell
• Applications:: Shell analogs for NWE applications
• Commands:: Useful shell commands
• Tab completions:: Using tab to complete commands automatically
• Keyboard shortcuts:: Shell keyboard shortcuts
• Redirecting commands:: Redirecting the output of commands
• Compression:: Compressing and archiving files
• Permissions:: Setting permissions on Files

You can also see the shell FAQ file for comp.unix.shell, which is mighty useful.

See also this great shell help at the University of Mississippi (Mirrored from the help written by the University of Edinburgh) and the Unix manual from Duke's Office of Information Technology.