The Bash Shell

[Steve]

Its one of those google books, a good reference guide for learning some shell commands etc


here

[Rik]

Out of curiosity, who uses which shell amongst us?

[Glenn]

Clams

[Rik]

Chowder or bake?

[Glenn]

 

[Steve]

I think most of mine is bash unless I put an sh in front 

[Rik]

 

[gizmo71]

I sometimes do ksh at work, or zsh where I can get away with it.

[esh]

bash, anything else is asking for trouble when you are using external scripts in my experience, though a lot of folks around me are a little old-fashioned and use csh/tcsh... someone here has a 6,000 line csh script. It is a monster.

[nowster]

bash in normal usage. sh (dash) for my packages.

[Rik]

Why the difference?

[john]

Before we migrated to PC's I used the C-shell extensively on Sun's but I also sometimes used the Bourne shell and ocassionally the Korn shell.

[nowster]

Why the difference?

Between bash and dash?

# ls -l /bin/[bd]ash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 811156 Apr 10 13:03 /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  84144 May 27 00:08 /bin/dash

Most helpful for those with lower memory available (eg. embedded systems).

[Rik]

Er, yes.