Shell

i was really curious what everyone thought of the different types of shell. and which one does everyone use or if they even change away from bash. i was also wondering whats the difference between all of them and which i better in your opinion. thanks

I've always used bash, only because its alway done what I wanted so there was no need for me to change.

well by the look at the results here im guessing that everyone must stick with bash and has never tryed any of the other shell's maybe i will give a new one a try and let you know about it. well if anyone else decides to try another shell let me no what is was like. :)

I've always used bash, we have something different on the BSD server's at work, dont know what it is.

I would like to try the C shell at some point, just to see what the difference is.

Jason

I use bash at home. At work, I think our UNIX servers use csh. Isn't there a command to find out which shell is being used?

If you hold a Unix shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?
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Originally Posted by CopperTop

If you hold a Unix shell up to your ear, can you hear the C?

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heh, that's been on my work email sig for the last 4 months :D

lol...that's a good one.

I use BASH on my box and OSX uses tcsh by default. The biggest thing I like about BASH vs. tcsh is that when you double TAB for TAB completion, it lists all the possible choices corresponding to your current text, whereas tcsh doesn't.

The double tab is definitely a great feature.

We don't even have the single tab completion here at work... :(

oh man, no tab completion? I think that would be like hell in *nix. I have become too reliant on my TAB key ... with just about everything. I even just figured out that they had it for IRC too. me and my TAB key are like best of friends now. Jebus that would suck.

[side note] the network here at work is really ticking me off today. piece of crap government systems. maybe i should go help those fellows out to fix it all. *thinks about it* naww ... im fine here in my office.

I have only used bash, mainly because its free and its allways been standard on all of the distro's I've used. :rock: