12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
12:32 p.m.
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.
Rich Alderson
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