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- Discovering What Shell You're Using
- Understanding Shells and Options
- Changing Your Shell with chsh
- Changing Your Shell Temporarily
- Using Completion in the bash Shell
- Viewing Session History in the bash Shell
- Using Completion in the zsh Shell
- Viewing Session History in the zsh Shell
- Using Completion in the ksh Shell
- Viewing Session History in the ksh Shell
- Viewing Session History in the csh Shell
- Changing Your Identity with su
- Fixing Terminal Settings with stty
- Exiting the Shell
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exiting the Shell
When you're finished with your Unix session, you need to exit the Unix shell. If you've been playing with the su and shell commands, you might actually have shells within shells and need to exit from all of them. All you have to do is type exit once for each shell.
To exit from the shell:
-
exit
At the shell prompt, type exit. Ta-da!
TIPS
- If you're located at the login shell prompt, you could also type logout rather than exit. At all other shells, though, you need to type exit. In some cases, you could also press
, but that depends on your local system configuration. - Be sure to log off rather than simply close your window or break your connection. It's possible, if the settings at your Unix host are seriously incorrect, that your session could remain open and someone else could pick up right where you left off with your session under your userid.
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