what is the advaantage of each user having its own copy of
the shell?

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



what is the advaantage of each user having its own copy of the shell?..

Answer / daaga

it allows user
1 to customise it's enviroment,
2 Intialise/modify some enviroment variable
or define to variable
3 Perform some task or exec some commands
as he logs on to the system..
etc..

Is This Answer Correct ?    8 Yes 0 No

what is the advaantage of each user having its own copy of the shell?..

Answer / nayakss

Copy of shell or copy of shell variable?

Shell is a process which is invoken when a user logged in.
So For each use a differ process has invoked in turns a
different shell.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 1 No

Post New Answer

More Unix Commands Interview Questions

what is the default signal kill in unix?

8 Answers   IBM,


what are processor execution levels and priorities?

2 Answers   Infosys,


A file has 1000 lines and i want to display only 1st line how to do it? pls ..tel me

7 Answers   CTS,


How do I use grep to find a file?

0 Answers  


Where can I get the free download of Unix by Yeswant Kanetkar?

5 Answers  






How does the user view the contents of a text file in UNIX?

9 Answers   IBM,


Differentiate cat command from more command.

0 Answers  


what is the command to find out which shell you are running?

14 Answers  


What is nr in awk command?

0 Answers  


what does the job command do?

4 Answers  


What does mkdir up2date; touch outdated up2date do?

2 Answers  


What does the command ' $who | sort –logfile > newfile' do?

0 Answers  


Categories