On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > > > I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas > > from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. > > Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both? >
Interactive only. For scripting, I stick to sh unless it gets too complex -- then I jump to Ruby. > > > > > man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the > > man pages. > > That's kind of scary. True, and it shows in its initial virtual size: sterling 62630 0.0 0.0 8264 1804 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.00 sh sterling 62733 0.0 0.1 10284 2932 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.01 csh sterling 62791 0.0 0.1 10284 2848 0 I 10:43AM 0:00.01 tcsh sterling 70731 0.0 0.1 14580 4324 0 I 10:46AM 0:00.05 zsh sterling 71773 0.0 0.1 10220 2908 0 I+ 10:46AM 0:00.01 bash But on a laptop with 4GB, I don't miss it. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"