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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