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- From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
- Subject: Bash ( Was Re: which(1) ? where-is-it : I-wrote-one)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.195631.23296@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:56:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.144932.27093@colorado.edu> drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
- [ "which" discussion deleted ]
- >
- >If you are using ash as an interactive shell, I feel for you.
- >Switch to bash for a Bourne shell or tcsh for a C shell.
- >
- Just had to comment on this. Bash is not JUST a Bourne shell;
- although it uses the Bourne script language, it has most of
- the interactive features of the C shell. Including history,
- aliases (though with a different syntax), directory stack
- and much more. It does NOT have shell variables as distinct
- from environment variables (no loss in my estimation).
-
- It also has command completion and a built in help.
- In summary, it is a major extension of the Bourne shell.
- I have never used C shell scripts for portability reasons, so
- I prefer bash to the C shell.
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- Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
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