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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:36:55 +0930 (CST)
From:      Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu (Kevin Weiss)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is you favorite shell?
Message-ID:  <9904282206.AA10105@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19990428165736.5E70F153A8@hub.freebsd.org> from Kevin Weiss at "Apr 28, 99 11:57:44 am"

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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


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