UserDoc:Shell

What is a shell?

A shell is a text based console the user will use to send commands to the computer. Also it is an AmigaOS window created by Intuition.

Starting a shell

Opening a Shell with default settings

You can open a shell doing like this:

• Double click the Shell icon, that you can find in the System folder of the system partition.

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• Issue one of the following commands newshell, newcli or cli. As an example, you can use such command in the Execute... requester of the Workbench.

Using settings to customise the shell

If you issue the newshell command without an argument, the default value will be used and a shell will be opened positionned at the top left of the screen, with a height of 130 pixels and it will take the width of the screen. The newshell command can be used with a special argument that describes how the shell should look. This is the WINDOW template that looks like this: CON:[X position]/[Y position]/[width]/[height]/[window title]/[settings]

Using a shell

A shell being a text only interface you will use it almost exclusively with the keyboard. There are a few graphic elements that will require the use of a mouse: menu items, window sliders, tabs...

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Menus

Using a shell menus.

Command line editing

Typing commands in a shell.