Why reccomend Bash shell?

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Dec 15 19:27:54 PST 2004


Adam wrote:

>In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing 
>the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94
>
>What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?
>
>Thanks,
>Adam
>  
>

I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a
.340 Weatherby magnum for big game (cape buffalo, elephant, etc,
where legal). The Weatherby is also great for moose and elk with a
Nosler 210 gg. partition bullet and a good high-velocity powder. :-D

Now, seriously, are you trying to start a jihad?  And didn't Grog
explain himself --- curious, if not...

Bash is an improvement on sh; tcsh is an improvement on
csh, and there are others, generally spawned when someone
wanted to add a feature or steal one from someone else.

# man sh
# man csh
# man bash (if it's installed)
# man tcsh
#lynx http://www.google.com/
# echo "Don't start holy wars!" | mail -s "Just a little advice" 
adam at jamradar.com

My $0.02, ;-)

Kevin Kinsey


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