Why reccomend Bash shell?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 15, 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?

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 ``!''.

Bill
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