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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl script command line option driven script Post 302482480 by Perderabo on Tuesday 21st of December 2010 03:43:45 PM
Old 12-21-2010
Oh. That is called a "prompt". The shell displays it to indicate that I can type something.
 

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type(1) 							   User Commands							   type(1)

NAME
type - write a description of command type SYNOPSIS
type name... DESCRIPTION
The type utility indicates how each name operand would be interpreted if used as a command. type displays information about each operand identifying the operand as a shell built-in, function, alias, hashed command, or keyword, and where applicable, may display the operand's path name. There is also a shell built-in version of type that is similar to the type utility. OPERANDS
The following operand is supported: name A name to be interpreted. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of type: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES- SAGES, and NLSPATH. PATH Determine the location of name. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
typeset(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 type(1)
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