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[Polytropon]

On Fri, 1 May 2020 18:09:53 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> I was used to use sh (Bourne sh) under root 21 years ago. So I
> switched it back from csh to sh.
> Wondering why they switched to csh anyway. It is a tastelessness. ;)

On FreeBSD, the C shell has been the default dialog shell
for all users, even for root, at least since 4.0. The
Bourne shell (equivalent on FreeBSD: ash) is only used
for two purposes by default:

	a) in single-user mode, and

	b) for scripting.

I wonder _why_ your root account has been switched from
using csh to sh as dialog shell... that's not the default
setting... Just for fun I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5
(what a convenient and flawless experience, compared to,
okay, I will shut up right away), and root's shell is the
C shell. Per default.

However, I fully agree that the C shell is very selective
in which users it attracts. I'm using it for dialog work,
since 4.0, and I even _prefer_ it over bash in a very few
aspects. However, for developing one-liners that could
grow into real scripts, I use bash (better dialog behaviour
than sh). Decades ago, I even wrote one (as a number: 1)
script in C shell, and I really can not recommend following
my example. ;-)

The only thing I do in plain sh is starting csh or bash.
I also use zsh and ksh from time to time on other systems,
so I get a good impression at "who is good with what".




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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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