CSHCMD(0)

🦋 CSHCMD(0) 🦋

okay so bestie, this is the csh(1) builtin reference — manual name csh(1), section 0 — and it is literally the whole “commands you can use inside csh” lineup. every single one below is a csh(1) builtin, so treat this like your group-chat cheat sheet. no cap.

✨ the builtin lineup ✨

• alias — shell macros, aka your fave shortcut besties.
• bg — place a job in the background.
• break — exit a while/foreach loop.
• breaksw — exit from a switch.
• case — selector in a switch.
• cd — change directory.
• chdir — change directory. yes, same energy, different name.
• continue — cycle on to the next bit in a loop.
• default — the catchall clause in a switch.
• echo — echo the arguments.
• else — alternative commands.
• end — terminate a loop.
• endif — terminate a conditional.
• endsw — terminate a switch.
• eval — re-evaluate shell data.
• exec — overlay the shell with the specified command.
• exit — leave the shell.
• fg — bring a job into the foreground.
• foreach — loop over a list of names.
• glob — filename-expand the argument list.
• goto — command transfer.
• hashstat — print command hashing statistics.
• history — print the history event list.
• if — conditional statement.
• jobs — print the current job list.
• kill — kill jobs and processes.
• limit — alter per-process resource limitations.
• login — login a new user.
• logout — end the session.
• nice — run a low-priority process.
• nohup — run a command immune to hangups.
• notify — request immediate notification.
• onintr — process interrupts in command scripts.
• popd — pop the shell directory stack.
• pushd — push the shell directory stack.
• rehash — recompute the command hash table.
• repeat — execute a command repeatedly.
• set — change the value of a shell variable.
• setenv — set a variable in the environment.
• shift — manipulate the argument list.
• source — read commands from a file.
• stop — halt a job or process.
• suspend — suspend a shell, resuming its superior.
• switch — multi-way command branch.
• time — time a command.
• umask — change or display the file creation mask.
• unalias — remove aliases.
• unhash — discard the command hash table.
• unlimit — remove resource limitations.
• unsetenv — remove environment variables.
• unset — discard shell variables.
• wait — wait for background processes to complete.
• while — repeat commands conditionally.
• @ — arithmetic on shell variables.

💖 source/version: the csh(1) builtin list, CSHCMD(0) · date: your local man page’s timestamp, bestie — mwah! 🫶