> > 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?
Because he likes it for some reason. He probably got used to using it (or sh - bash is basically an updated sh) and transferred his comfort to FreeBSD. I prefer tcsh (an updated version of csh) as my login shell but occasionally use sh for some scripts - mostly those already started in sh by someone else. csh - actually a link to tcsh nowdays - is installed by by default and is reasonably user friendly to command line input. For any slightly complicated scripts I use Perl anyway so... I, then don't have to bother installing the bash port - not much trouble, but just one more thing. Whichever you use is not going to affect how well your system works so don't worry about it. Use whichever you like. ////jerry > > Thanks, > Adam _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"