From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 10: 3:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 10:03:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2B937B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:03:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBII03h14375; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:00:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:00:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: xuyifeng Cc: igorr@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove Message-ID: <20001218120003.A14046@dan.emsphone.com> References: <001b01c068d5$2efd2a40$6201a8c0@William> <20001218131951.A21133@linux.rainbow> <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf>; from "xuyifeng" on Mon Dec 18 23:30:04 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: dan@dan.emsphone.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 18), xuyifeng said: > then If I want to learn shell script programming on FreeBSD, there > are two shell languages to learn, two big horrible manuals to read, > this also sucks, I am tired. this is obstacle for Linux user switch > to FreeBSD, bash is compatible with sh, this is good, csh should > definitely be removed from FreeBSD or default not to install it. If you want to learn shell script programming for any Unix, learn /bin/sh, not csh or bash. That way you're guaranteed to have scripts that run on any system. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message