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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:52:33 -0500
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu>
To:        "xuyifeng" <bsddiy@163.net>, <igorr@crosswinds.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove
Message-ID:  <00121814523301.14641@culverk.student.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf>
References:  <001b01c068d5$2efd2a40$6201a8c0@William> <20001218131951.A21133@linux.rainbow> <001d01c06907$66a8cd00$5ac809c0@xyf>

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On Monday 18 December 2000 10:30 am, xuyifeng wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Igor Robul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove
>
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:30:36PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> > >    can next FreeBSD installs bash as default shell instead of csh? =
it
> > > seems if you default install csh as default one, the system is
> > > inconsistency, because csh can't execute
> >
> > bash is GNU software. And it is not possible to include it into base
> > system.
> > And bash sucks :-)
> >
> > #!/bin/sh <---  This line tells kernel which shell use for script
> > so there is REAL Bourne shell in base system.
> >
> > And "csh" is NATURAL part of any BSD system. If you don't like it the=
n
> > just don't use it.
>
> 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 remo=
ved
> from FreeBSD or default not to install it.
>
in FreeBSD csh is the same as tcsh... with all it's different and new=20
features over csh... try it once... you may like it... I like it much bet=
ter=20
than bash.

Ken


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