From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 16: 7:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA4037BC02 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.33]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000719000643.PBID3760.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:06:43 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA04161; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:07:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:07:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Linh Pham Cc: "David J. Kanter" , FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000719000713.G239@parish> References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@q.closedsrc.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 04:00:09PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > // > // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD > // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org > // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org > > /* "Oregon, n.: > Eighty billion gallons of water > with no place to go on > Saturday night." > */ > > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message