From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 01:51:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5886E16A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D29C43D49 for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:51:18 +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 sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20041231015117i9100rffdme>; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:51:17 +0000 Message-ID: <41D4B08F.8020304@nbritton.org> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:51:11 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sub01@freeode.co.uk References: <49B5BEF2.7CCF22F4.0F75C5EC@netscape.net> <1104431994.1669.19.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Games X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:51:18 -0000 John Murphy wrote: >Mike Jeays wrote: > > > >>My personal preference is Bash. It is readily available on most Unixes, >>and has a good selection of features. I don't so much like the csh/tcsh >>family, which have a somewhat different syntax. >> >> > >I particularly like the history mechanism which is enabled for the >default csh/tcsh with FreeBSD. The recent usage of any command is >recalled by typing a few letters and then up arrow. Bash probably >can do it too and would have similar 'TAB' file name completion. > >But then - I remember thinking doskey was cool :) > > Doskey was cool! :-)