Re: [TUHS] Origin of the BSD csh? - TUHS

27 Jun 2016

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  On Jun 26, 2016, at 5:59 PM,
tuhs-request(a)minnie.tuhs.org wrote:

 I detested the CSH syntax.   In order to beat back the CSH proponents at BRL, I added JOB
control to the SV  (and later SVR2) Bourne Shell.   Then they beat on me for not having
command like editing in (a la TCSH), so I added that.   This shell went out as /bin/sh in
the Doug Gwyn SV-on-BSD release so every once and a while over the years I trip across a
“Ron shell” usually people who were running Mach-derived things that ran my shell as
/bin/sh.  
When porting BSD to new hardware at Celerity (later Floating Point, now part of Sun, oops
Oracle) I got ahold of the code that Doug was working on and made the jsh (Job control sh)
my shell of choice. Now that Bash does all of those things and almost everything emacs can
do, Bash is my shell.

As far as customizing, I’ve got a .cshrc that does nothing more than redirect to a launch
of bash if available and /bin/sh if nothing else. And my scripts for logging in are so
long a convoluted due to many years of various hardware and software idiosyncratic changes
(DG/UX anyone, anyone?) that I’m sure most of it is now useless. And I don’t change it for
fear of breaking something.

	David