which is the basic differences between the shells?

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Sat Jun 5 23:17:21 UTC 2010


On Jun 05 2010 22:35, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> hello,
> i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i
> found out that there are also much more.
> can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons)
> 
> thanks in advance
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I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas
from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft.

man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the
man pages.

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