Setting Options for a Shell Session

The set command lets you set options, or flags, for your shell session. These flags control the way the shell handles certain situations. To display the shell flags that are currently set, type set –o. To turn an option on, enter:

set –o name

where name is the name of the option you want to turn on. If you want an option turned on for every shell session, put the set command in your login script (the script specified on the ENV variable).

To turn an option off, enter:

set +o name

Contrary to what you might expect, - means on, and + means off.

The following discussion highlights some of the options you may find useful. For all the options, see the description of set in z/VM: OpenExtensions Commands Reference.