On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:39:24PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 24 February 2011: > > > > What we have not yet determined is: > > > > 1. Is it a good idea to replace (t)csh? > > Though I dislike the OP's dismissal of backticks, I must admit that I > would prefer that the standard shell be at least Bourne-compatible. I > use csh for root for all the reasons that you shouldn't change your > root shell. I suppose I could change root to /bin/sh, but that doesn't > even have command recall. I don't know how many times I've keyed in a > nicely composed off-the-cuff conditional only to have it fall flat. I > have to remind myself to start zsh first when working as root, or start > getting used to using toor instead, or just always use sudo.
The toor account seems like the right answer here. In general, I actually prefer the csh-style syntax for an interactive shell, personally. I would be willing to deal with sh as the default shell, and make changes to use tcsh instead as needed, though. Would I would not want is to go the other direction -- to change the default shell to something with too many dependencies and licensing more restrictive than FreeBSD's preferred license. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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