What is the most powerful shell and shell script available?
Korn Shell (ksh), Bourne Shell (sh), C Shell (csh), or Bourne Again Shell (bash)
Korn Shell
Bourne Shell
C Shell
Bourne Again Shell
other (please post below)
What is the most powerful shell and shell script available?
Korn Shell (ksh), Bourne Shell (sh), C Shell (csh), or Bourne Again Shell (bash)
Last edited by xviddivxoggmp3; 07-23-2004 at 10:30 PM.
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Art of War Sun Tzu
csh?
Nasty horrible thing
First major script I did was in csh, man what a nightmare.
Read this
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
Definately BASH
crap, i accidentally voted for sh, but BASH is definately the way to go.
> crap, i accidentally voted for sh,
Vote moved to bash
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.
I have been using csh. Don't really have a preference except that I've gotten used to csh. The redirect error output thing is a good reason to switch. Probably wont. whatever.
"You are stupid! You are stupid! Oh, and don't forget, you are STUPID!" - Dexter
Never seen bash, so voted for what I liked best, Bourne.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity unto the dream.
If you want to try bash - you can try it out with www.cygwin.com.
BASH all the way.
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