From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 15: 7: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3529415796 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:07:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA10105; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:36:55 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9904282206.AA10105@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: what is you favorite shell? In-Reply-To: <19990428165736.5E70F153A8@hub.freebsd.org> from Kevin Weiss at "Apr 28, 99 11:57:44 am" To: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu (Kevin Weiss) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:36:55 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 774 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I only reply because noone has yet listed my favourite shell :). This is getting into the "emacs vs. vi" type category though, the choice is really based on personal preference. > a normal user account? tcsh. A wonderful shell if you like the csh way of doing things over sh. > root? csh, although I usually type tcsh to get it if I'm in multi-user mode. > I use bash for my users, and csh for my root. I've heard many knocks > against bash though...what do you think? I use bash on the Winboxes at work from the cygwin package. Its not bad, I just find a couple of things lacking from tcsh (or maybe its just that I can't find how to do them in bash). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message