From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 15:55: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D597437BC0B for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA25169 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:54:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (areca-22-028090.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.90]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma025073; Tue, 18 Jul 00 17:54:43 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA95619 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:53:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:53:45 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to learn a shell fairly well and chose csh because it's in the base FreeBSD system (a little graybeard character) and I found good documentation on it written by William Joy. But I've read some things that it's a "bad" shell. Is it? It seems that, at some level, all shells are essentially equal. But when shells start to divide is csh left in the dust? What about the shells I've read rave things about: Korn and Bash. I've got C++ experience, so maybe that's why I chose csh too. -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message