Re: Shell Games

From: Nicolas Mackintosh (nic_at_ohko.org)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 02:52:01 +0000
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    On 31 Dec 2004, at 02:45, Joshua Tinnin wrote:

    > On Thursday 30 December 2004 06:09 pm, Mike Jeays
    > <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> wrote:
    >> 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.
    >
    > Incidentally, my favorite shell is zsh, which is a bit of a kitchen
    > sink
    > approach, but it's quite powerful. It's intended to be a superset of
    > ksh, but it incorporates many features of ksh, Bash and tcsh. Most
    > people I know who started out in the *nix world running Linux prefer
    > Bash, because that's the default shell. Like others have said, it
    > doesn't really matter that much what shell you prefer, as long as you
    > learn the one you have and know it's strengths/weaknesses and can work
    > with them.
    >
    > - jt
    >
    >> Fully agree about DOSKEY - it made the awful Windows command line a
    >> little bit more tolerable.

    While I'm fairly new to the whole BSD experience, I've dabbled with
    various Linux builds over a year or two.

    I've always looked at the shell as a very personal thing. Some will
    prefer Bash, others will want to play with something completely
    different. It's a bit like having a favorite hammer... Only a lot more
    elegant!

    \npm

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