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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:00:03 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        xuyifeng <bsddiy@163.net>
Cc:        igorr@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove
Message-ID:  <20001218120003.A14046@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf>; from "xuyifeng" on Mon Dec 18 23:30:04 GMT 2000
References:  <001b01c068d5$2efd2a40$6201a8c0@William> <20001218131951.A21133@linux.rainbow> <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf>

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In the last episode (Dec 18), xuyifeng said:
> then If  I want to learn shell script programming on FreeBSD, there
> are two shell languages to learn, two big horrible manuals to read,
> this also sucks, I am tired.  this is obstacle for Linux user switch
> to FreeBSD, bash is compatible with sh, this is good, csh should
> definitely be removed from FreeBSD or default not to install it.

If you want to learn shell script programming for any Unix, learn
/bin/sh, not csh or bash.  That way you're guaranteed to have scripts
that run on any system.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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