Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:07:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000719000713.G239@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181557060.11935-100000@q.closedsrc.org>; from lplist@q.closedsrc.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:00:09PM -0700 References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181557060.11935-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Linh Pham wrote:
>
> I personally don't think csh is a bad shell, but I tend to prefer tcsh
> over csh.
>
Which is now part of the base system; csh is a hard link to tcsh:
# ls -li `which csh tcsh`
335 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 622684 15 Jul 01:46 /bin/csh
335 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 622684 15 Jul 01:46 /bin/tcsh
> Bash may be an easier shell to learn and to learn how to write shell
> scripts for.
>
> sh (the original Bourne schell) is pretty much universal, bash and csh
> are very common on many UNIX installations. I know many people on AIX use
> ksh (Korn shell, which can be installed using the ports... it's called
> pdksh).
>
> // Linh Pham
> //
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>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David J. Kanter wrote:
>
> > I'd like to learn a shell fairly well and chose csh because it's in the base
> > FreeBSD system (a little graybeard character) and I found good documentation
> > on it written by William Joy. But I've read some things that it's a "bad"
> > shell.
> >
> > Is it?
> >
> > It seems that, at some level, all shells are essentially equal. But when
> > shells start to divide is csh left in the dust? What about the shells I've
> > read rave things about: Korn and Bash.
> >
> > I've got C++ experience, so maybe that's why I chose csh too.
> > --
> > David Kanter
> > djkanter@northwestern.edu
> >
> >
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