From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 16 03:37:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A986416A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:37:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EB043D4C for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:37:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041216033716i92002bklie>; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:37:17 +0000 Message-ID: <41C102EB.4020003@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:37:15 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@celestial.com References: <005a01c4e31c$efc4d460$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> <20041216032104.GB17081@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20041216032104.GB17081@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why reccomend Bash shell? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:37:18 -0000 Bill Campbell wrote: >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: > > >>In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 >> >>What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? >> >> > >That's largely a religious issue. I used csh for my first 6 years or >so of *nix use, switching to ksh around 1988. Personally I like ksh >better than bash or csh/tcsh for interactive use, largely because I >prefer using its ``r'' options to repeat previous commands to the csh >and bash ``!''. > > BTW last time I checked (about three weeks ago the ksh93 port was broken, the old src tarballs have been removed from the servers listed in the Makefile because they released newer version. Christian Weisgerber (naddy at mips.inka.de) is listed as the maintainer. >Bill >-- >INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. >UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way >FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 >URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > >``If the government can take a man's money without his consent, there is no >limit to the additional tyranny it may practise upon him; for, with his >money, it can hire soldiers to stand over him, keep him in subjection, >plunder him at discretion, and kill him if he resists.'' > Lysander Spooner, 1852 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >