From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 16 04:05:22 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 EBE7316A4CF for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:05:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7F943D5F for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:05:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id E6AA511E8DA; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:05:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:05:21 -0800 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041216040521.GA23327@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <005a01c4e31c$efc4d460$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> <20041216032104.GB17081@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <41C102EB.4020003@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41C102EB.4020003@nbritton.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Why reccomend Bash shell? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:05:23 -0000 On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: >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. Most of the extra stuff I'm running on FreeBSD is built under the OpenPKG.org packaging system rather than from ports so I haven't seen those problems. I'm running pkdsh-5.2.14 rather than the official ksh, largely out of habit. The current OpenPKG version of ksh is ksh-20040229. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC 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/ When only cops have guns, it's called a ``police state''. -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution"