What shell do you use? (Poll)

Jeff Medcalf jeffm at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Fri Nov 17 12:04:12 AEST 1989


I am currently using tcsh.  I began on csh, and have used ksh.  I tried
vsh, but didn't like it.  Bourne shell for programs like my remove to 
a tmp directory.

SHELL		OPINIONS

sh		great for command programming (fast)
		not fully featured enough for general use, though

ksh		ksh and I just didn't get along.  It was a hassle
		for me to learn

csh		the shell I started on, and was very familiar with.
		I like the control structures, alias, pushd/popd, and
		the history mechanism.  makes it easy to work on the
		system

tcsh		csh++.  csh with command line editing, filename completion,
		and some other little goodies.  only problem is that it is
		not quite working right with our beta-test UMAX4.3.


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