shells (was Re: UNIX V7)

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Sridhar Ayengar
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 6:58 AM

> Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> I actually started with ksh and bash, it wasn't until I started working 
>> my current job that I switched to csh.  It was the default shell for 
>> root, and I learned to like the way it was configured.  Now the default 
>> shell is bash. :-(

> I went from csh -> tcsh -> zsh.  I always script in either sh (actually 
> mostly ash probably) or ksh.

I went from csh (briefly) to tcsh (last time I looked, my name was still in
the man page) for years.  I learned ksh when I was managing HP-UX systems at
Cisco in the early 90s, and went on to bash when I got my first ISP shell account at Netcom following the move to Redmond.

I use bash for just about everything, but occasionally fire up tcsh to do
filename parsing in foreach loops--I just have trouble wrapping my head
around the bash syntax, even though I can see that it's more general.


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