From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 13: 0:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BF4153D1 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01625; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:00:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:00:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Len Huppe writes: > > As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you > > *hate* bash. > > It's buggy How and where? > and bloated. It provides much fewer features than zsh yet > has a larger memory footprint. I won't try to defend the memory footprint, but how many fewer features (other than programmable completion) are we talking about? > It's under GPL. No argument there, although frankly that's not an issue for me. Also, as I understand it Bash's license is a slightly modified version of the first GPL, so it's not quite as bad as all that. > Try zsh. Don't just install it and use it as a drop-in bash > replacement, but read the man pages and use its features. For > starters, learn to use its extended globbing and its programmable > completion. Trust me, you'll get addicted soon enough. What features specifically do you recommend that we look at other than those two, and how do they differ from bash? I'm willing to give another shell a look, but "Use this, it's better" isn't a convincing argument for me. :) Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message