26 Jun
2016
26 Jun
'16
10:58 p.m.
On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 09:30:39AM -0700, Mary Ann
Horton wrote:
For some daft reason my first foray onto the Unix command line was tcsh,
and later I switched to bash, which is still my primary choice - though I
don't mind using any other Korn-type shell, long as I got my "emacs
editing" mode (although the real ksh's tab completion is clunkier than
bash's).
Using a Bourne shell that doesn't have a line editor is a pain in the
keester, but if I must, I can deal.
I have no idea how to use csh, and if I'm set up with csh as my default
shell the first thing I'll do is try to switch it to bash or ksh!
-uso.
I brought csh with me to Bell Labs in the summer
of 1979. The folks at Bell
Labs recoiled in horror: they had just gone through a painful conversion
from the Mashey shell to the Bourne shell
I used csh for a while before ksh became available. It was an improvement
over the Bourne shell, IMO, but once ksh came out I went back to Bourne
shell syntax. And now bash is pretty nice.
--lm