Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net
Sat Dec 15 03:57:01 PST 2007
> On December 14, 2007 at 08:03PM Frank Shute wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >
> > > On December 14, 2007 at 04:10PM Frank Shute wrote:
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > > I'm happy with sh as the system shell though; it's light weight:
> > >
> > > $ ls -l /bin/sh
> > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111028 Nov 30 00:10 /bin/sh
~ $ ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 111788 Oct 5 13:55 /bin/sh*
> > > $ ls -l /bin/ksh
> > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 681584 Oct 6 12:33 /bin/ksh
> > >
> > > How about giving us all a laugh and posting the results for bash ;)
> >
> > ~ $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 643984 Sep 12 15:51 /usr/local/bin/bash*
> >
>
> pdksh has put on weight. Used to be ~300k in the 4.* days and bash
> about 500k IIRC. On my machine bash is bigger than yours (newer version?):
~ $ bash --version
bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(0)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd6.2)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 676752 Nov 9 11:57 /usr/local/bin/bash
>
> Don't know why bash is writable by root but sh & ksh aren't.
>
> Seems like I've ended up with bash installed whether I like it or not:
>
> $ pkg_info -R bash-3.2.25
> Information for bash-3.2.25:
>
> Required by:
> gnome-doc-utils-0.12.0
> libgnome-2.20.1.1_1
> rarian-0.6.0_1
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