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Usage

See the manual for your shell for operation details.

Overview

This page provides an index of builtin commands, keywords, and keyboard bindings provided by csh(1) and sh(1), the command line interpreters which comprise the BSD user environment.

Commands

Below is a table which lists builtin commands and keywords, whether they exist as standalone utilities, and the standard shells that provide them.

Command	Standalone	csh(1)	sh(1)
!	No	No	Yes
%	No	Yes	No
.	No	No	Yes
:	No	Yes	Yes
@	No	Yes	No
[	Yes	No	Yes
{	No	No	Yes
}	No	No	Yes
alias	No	Yes	Yes
alloc	No	Yes	No
bg	No	Yes	Yes
bind	No	No	Yes
bindkey	No	Yes	No
break	No	Yes	Yes
breaksw	No	Yes	No
builtin	No	No	Yes
builtins	No	Yes	No
case	No	Yes	Yes
cd	No	Yes	Yes
chdir	No	Yes	Yes
command	No	No	Yes
complete	No	Yes	No
continue	No	Yes	Yes
default	No	Yes	No
dirs	No	Yes	No
do	No	No	Yes
done	No	No	Yes
echo	Yes	Yes	Yes
echotc	No	Yes	No
elif	No	No	Yes
else	No	Yes	Yes
end	No	Yes	No
endif	No	Yes	No
endsw	No	Yes	No
esac	No	No	Yes
eval	No	Yes	Yes
exec	No	Yes	Yes
exit	No	Yes	Yes
export	No	No	Yes
false	Yes	No	Yes
fc	No	No	Yes
fg	No	Yes	Yes
fi	No	No	Yes
filetest	No	Yes	No
for	No	No	Yes
foreach	No	Yes	No
getopts	No	No	Yes
glob	No	Yes	No
goto	No	Yes	No
hash	No	No	Yes
hashstat	No	Yes	No
history	No	Yes	No
hup	No	Yes	No
if	No	Yes	Yes
jobid	No	No	Yes
jobs	No	Yes	Yes
kill	Yes	Yes	Yes
limit	No	Yes	No
local	No	No	Yes
log	No	Yes	No
login	Yes	Yes	No
logout	No	Yes	No
ls-F	No	Yes	No
nice	Yes	Yes	No
nohup	Yes	Yes	No
notify	No	Yes	No
onintr	No	Yes	No
popd	No	Yes	No
printenv	Yes	Yes	No
printf	Yes	No	Yes
pushd	No	Yes	No
pwd	Yes	No	Yes
read	No	No	Yes
readonly	No	No	Yes
rehash	No	Yes	No
repeat	No	Yes	No
return	No	No	Yes
sched	No	Yes	No
set	No	Yes	Yes
setenv	No	Yes	No
settc	No	Yes	No
setty	No	Yes	No
setvar	No	No	Yes
shift	No	Yes	Yes
source	No	Yes	No
stop	No	Yes	No
suspend	No	Yes	No
switch	No	Yes	No
telltc	No	Yes	No
test	Yes	No	Yes
then	No	No	Yes
time	Yes	Yes	No
times	No	No	Yes
trap	No	No	Yes
true	Yes	No	Yes
type	No	No	Yes
ulimit	No	No	Yes
umask	No	Yes	Yes
unalias	No	Yes	Yes
uncomplete	No	Yes	No
unhash	No	Yes	No
unlimit	No	Yes	No
unset	No	Yes	Yes
unsetenv	No	Yes	No
until	No	No	Yes
wait	No	Yes	Yes
where	No	Yes	No
which	Yes	Yes	No
while	No	Yes	Yes

Keybinds

The command line environment also provides the following default keyboard bindings:

Signal	csh(1)	sh(1)
Backspace	^H	^H
Carriage Return	^M \| ^J	^M \| ^J
Tab	^I	^I
Beginning of Line	^A	^A
End of Line	^E	^E
Cursor Forward	^F	^F
Cursor Backward	^B	^B
Clear Screen	^L	^L
Cut Line	^U	^U
Cut Word Backwards	^W	^W
Cut Rest of Line	^K	^K
Paste Last Cut	^Y	^Y
Typo	^T	^T
End of File (EOF)	^D	^D
Interupt (SIGINT)	^C	^C
Process info (SIGINFO)	^T	^T
Search History	No	^R
Exit Search History	No	^G
Previous Command	^P	^P
Next Command	^N	^N
Print Next Character	^V	^V
Pause Job	^S	^S
Resume Job	^Q	^Q
Suspend Job (SIGTSTP)	^Z	^Z
Scrollback Mode	ScrLk*	ScrLk*

*: Bindings marked ‘*’ are provided by vt(4), the console driver.

Caveats

While builtin commands may exist in more than one shell or standalone, each may be implemented differently.

Standalone utilities and their manuals must be called by their path from a shell with a builtin command of the same name.

Releases

73 releases since FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE; the text changed 46 times.