On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote: >In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing the default >shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 > >What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?
That's largely a religious issue. I used csh for my first 6 years or so of *nix use, switching to ksh around 1988. Personally I like ksh better than bash or csh/tcsh for interactive use, largely because I prefer using its ``r'' options to repeat previous commands to the csh and bash ``!''. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``If the government can take a man's money without his consent, there is no limit to the additional tyranny it may practise upon him; for, with his money, it can hire soldiers to stand over him, keep him in subjection, plunder him at discretion, and kill him if he resists.'' Lysander Spooner, 1852 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
