Its one of those google books, a good reference guide for learning some shell commands etc
here (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WQCSxv9vfPkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Learning+the+bash+Shell,+Third+Edition+Unix+Shell+Programming&source=bl&ots=OiW8hY741O&sig=90UsSreWCsL3MoBuiK6eDpmvDhI&hl=en&ei=1u8ETKGrNtmH4gav-PjLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Learning%20the%20bash%20Shell%2C%20Third%20Edition%20Unix%20Shell%20Programming&f=false)
Out of curiosity, who uses which shell amongst us?
Clams
Chowder or bake? ;D
;D
I think most of mine is bash unless I put an sh in front
;D
I sometimes do ksh at work, or zsh where I can get away with it.
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.
bash in normal usage. sh (dash) for my packages.
Why the difference?
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.
Quote from: Rik on Jun 01, 2010, 15:00:12
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).
Er, yes. ;)