From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 26 23:40:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F20E152CC for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25580; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:39:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <379D5428.DAE3BF21@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:39:36 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Len Huppe Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! References: <73448.932787007@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990724102734.A20171@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19990726175625.A1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <379D20CA.F7EC7E15@execpc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Len Huppe wrote: > > As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you > *hate* bash. Because they are silly. :) But seriously folks, csh was developed in berkely, and became the "traditional" BSD shell. At different times bash has not had some features that people wanted, so other shells became "better" because they offered those features. There has now been so much convergence between the major shells that any "differences" are basically matters of style, and not terribly important. There are also some foolish people who think that because linux had the foresight to adopt bash as their standard system shell that it must be bad. At this point, whatever shell feels comfortable to you is the one you should use. Personally I've used bash for 5 years, I like it, I have lots of scripts for it, a killer .bashrc file, and can't stand csh, in any flavor. But, the great thing about unix is that there is always more than one way to do things. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message