From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 14 17:43:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.cts.COM (cts21612089241.cts.com [216.120.89.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5DB37B440 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:43:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heyjoe@localhost.cts.COM) Received: (from heyjoe@localhost) by localhost.cts.COM (8.11.0/8.11.0) id o3F0i0322706 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:44:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:44:00 -0700 From: Joe Heuring To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: shells Message-ID: <20100414174400.B21523@Joe H> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: Linux heyjoe 2.2.16-22 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of pure curiosity I'm wondering why FreeBSD uses the C-shell as default. I have a quick tendency to switch to bash but shortly I expect to be working in the field so I'm wondering how much one would be expected to know the C-shell. With out knowing I would expect the C-shell to have a smaller foot print than bash (because it's older) and that maybe certain devices would prefer one shell over the other. But I have no idea really. Can anyone shed any light on this as to how much the C-shell is still and will be used? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message