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Date:      27 Jul 1999 10:56:34 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com>
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!
Message-ID:  <xzp7lnm5v3x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Len Huppe's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:00:26 -0500"
References:  <C1F3617BDC52D21185E40000214C247C15404E@id-bucharest.idsrom.com> <73448.932787007@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990724102734.A20171@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <xzp1zdvbwso.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990726175625.A1384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <379D20CA.F7EC7E15@execpc.com>

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Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com> writes:
> As a newcomer to FreeBSD, I am intersted in knowing why so many of you
> *hate* bash.

It's buggy and bloated. It provides much fewer features than zsh yet
has a larger memory footprint. It's under GPL.

I don't *hate* bash, BTW. I just think it (and every other shell out
there) is vastly inferior to zsh. But bash is still better than most.

Try zsh. Don't just install it and use it as a drop-in bash
replacement, but read the man pages and use its features. For
starters, learn to use its extended globbing and its programmable
completion. Trust me, you'll get addicted soon enough.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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