Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:24:54 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shells shells shells? Message-ID: <199609181824.AA040831094@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <324031EB.41C67EA6@nconnect.net> from "Randy DuCharme" at Sep 18, 96 12:31:23 pm
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E-mail message from Randy DuCharme contained: > Greetings, > I just downloaded and read one person's opinion of the C shell. I > understand that a question like this can lead to a potential war as > there's probably a great deal of 'personal opinion' surrounding the > responses, but I'm wondering...what's the "BEST" shell to use for a > person new to UNIX. (by new I'm implying that I'm unaccustomed to > any particular shell and will be learning whatever shell from the > ground up) I've been using tcsh up until now as I like one of its > features... namely the 'up arrow' recalling the previously typed > commands. I also chose tcsh thinking that my knowledge of C would > possibly be of some benefit. However, now that I'm beginning the > journey of learning scripting, and based on what I just read, I'm > wondering if there's not a better choice??? > > Opinions? Well, you just asked for one :) I personally find csh based shells to be nice interactive environments. They are also capable of some scripting (simple things, some automation of daily processing, etc.) With time I have switched to sh based shell for heavier scripts, and perl if I have to make some real programs that don't deserve to be written in C. At some point in time I was into rexx and dcl, but I don't like to disclose my dark past so openly :) /Marino > > Thanks > > Randy >
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