7 Jan
2020
7 Jan
'20
4:10 a.m.
On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:29:30 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
csh was more convenient as an interactive shell but it was not
good for writing scripts & I always used /bin/sh for scripts.
I switched from csh to zsh almost since the time it was first
posted to alt.sources - over 29 years ago!
Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both
interactively and
for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
for production work?
I have never used all the fancy stuff in BASH such as the arithmetic
functions; I still use "expr" etc for portability.
My favourite shell is still ZSH (the alternative was CSH, and my views on
that POS are well known) because I started using it long before BASH, and
even then I use a fraction of its power. I did dabble with KSH, though (I
needed command editing and history).