Why reccomend Bash shell?

Nikolas Britton freebsd at nbritton.org
Wed Dec 15 19:37:18 PST 2004


Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Adam wrote:
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>>In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94
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>>What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells?
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>That's largely a religious issue.  I used csh for my first 6 years or
>so of *nix use, switching to ksh around 1988.  Personally I like ksh
>better than bash or csh/tcsh for interactive use, largely because I
>prefer using its ``r'' options to repeat previous commands to the csh
>and bash ``!''.
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BTW last time I checked (about three weeks ago the ksh93 port was 
broken, the old src tarballs have been removed from the servers listed 
in the Makefile because they released newer version. Christian 
Weisgerber (naddy at mips.inka.de) is listed as the maintainer.

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