Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:23:00 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: adam@jamradar.com (Adam) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why reccomend Bash shell? Message-ID: <200412161523.iBGFN1V22788@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <005a01c4e31c$efc4d460$0200a8c0@PANASONIULSWMR> from "Adam" at Dec 15, 2004 09:11:24 PM
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> > 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? Because he likes it for some reason. He probably got used to using it (or sh - bash is basically an updated sh) and transferred his comfort to FreeBSD. I prefer tcsh (an updated version of csh) as my login shell but occasionally use sh for some scripts - mostly those already started in sh by someone else. csh - actually a link to tcsh nowdays - is installed by by default and is reasonably user friendly to command line input. For any slightly complicated scripts I use Perl anyway so... I, then don't have to bother installing the bash port - not much trouble, but just one more thing. Whichever you use is not going to affect how well your system works so don't worry about it. Use whichever you like. ////jerry > > Thanks, > Adam
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