Questions concerning BaSH
Dave Sill
de5 at ornl.gov
Wed Jan 9 03:35:18 AEST 1991
In article <71792 at bu.edu.bu.edu>, jc at bu-pub.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:
>I have seen a few references to Bash. I was just curious as to where
>I can get it, and what are the pros cons in comparison to tsch.
Where to get it:
Host labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.47)
Last updated 13:12 10 Dec 1990
Location: pub/gnu
FILE rw-rw-r-- 389006 Mar 10 1990 bash-1.05.tar.Z
Host munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
Last updated 12:41 10 Dec 1990
Location: gnu
FILE rw-r--r-- 389006 Mar 19 1990 bash-1.05.tar.Z
Host trantor.harris-atd.com (26.13.0.98)
Last updated 18:20 9 Dec 1990
Location: gnu
FILE rw-r--r-- 389006 Jun 28 18:19 bash-1.05.tar.Z
Host tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60)
Last updated 18:17 9 Dec 1990
Location: pub/gnu/bash
FILE rw-r--r-- 389006 Mar 4 1990 bash-1.05.tar.Z
Host uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2)
Last updated 17:52 9 Dec 1990
Location: gnu
FILE rw-r--r-- 389006 Mar 13 1990 bash-1.05.tar.Z
Pros/Cons vs. TCSH
+Doesn't require CSH source
+Is Bourne compatible, but with CSH-style history & job control
-Is less mature, hence buggier
+Is more customizable; keys are easily rebound
+Has shell functions
--
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