Re: Shell Games

From: Mike Jeays (Mike.Jeays_at_rogers.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:09:42 -0500

    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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