From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 17:50:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78711065672 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:50:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F30D8FC14 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 17:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 174-21-99-21.tukw.qwest.net ([174.21.99.21] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OLJsc-0007Jf-IM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:43:27 -0700 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:50:43 -0700 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:50:43 -0700 From: Chip Camden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100606175043.GA46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100605231715.GD69990@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100606163136.GA27788@guilt.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100606163136.GA27788@guilt.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com Subject: Re: which is the basic differences between the shells? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:50:51 -0000 On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas > > from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. > > Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both? > Interactive only. For scripting, I stick to sh unless it gets too complex -- then I jump to Ruby. > > > > > man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the > > man pages. > > That's kind of scary. True, and it shows in its initial virtual size: sterling 62630 0.0 0.0 8264 1804 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.00 sh sterling 62733 0.0 0.1 10284 2932 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.01 csh sterling 62791 0.0 0.1 10284 2848 0 I 10:43AM 0:00.01 tcsh sterling 70731 0.0 0.1 14580 4324 0 I 10:46AM 0:00.05 zsh sterling 71773 0.0 0.1 10220 2908 0 I+ 10:46AM 0:00.01 bash But on a laptop with 4GB, I don't miss it. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com