Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:09:42 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: sub01@freeode.co.uk Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Games Message-ID: <1104458982.622.3.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <gk89t09eaann18didoecusdhho0v9cc7u4@4ax.com> References: <49B5BEF2.7CCF22F4.0F75C5EC@netscape.net> <1104431994.1669.19.camel@chaucer> <gk89t09eaann18didoecusdhho0v9cc7u4@4ax.com>
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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:15, John Murphy wrote: > Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> 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 :) Bash has very similar features. Most of the shells have borrowed the good ideas from others, and you can compare this with evolutionary convergence - good ideas tend to persist and be re-used. Bash and TCSH share features for the same reason that fish and dolphins are similar shapes - it it the best solution to a problem. Fully agree about DOSKEY - it made the awful Windows command line a little bit more tolerable.
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