which is the basic differences between the shells?
Chip Camden
sterling at camdensoftware.com
Sun Jun 6 17:50:51 UTC 2010
On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both?
>
Interactive only. For scripting, I stick to sh unless it gets too complex --
then I jump to Ruby.
>
> >
> > man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the
> > man pages.
>
> That's kind of scary.
True, and it shows in its initial virtual size:
sterling 62630 0.0 0.0 8264 1804 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.00 sh
sterling 62733 0.0 0.1 10284 2932 0 I 10:42AM 0:00.01 csh
sterling 62791 0.0 0.1 10284 2848 0 I 10:43AM 0:00.01 tcsh
sterling 70731 0.0 0.1 14580 4324 0 I 10:46AM 0:00.05 zsh
sterling 71773 0.0 0.1 10220 2908 0 I+ 10:46AM 0:00.01 bash
But on a laptop with 4GB, I don't miss it.
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