Re: Which shell?
Re: Which shell?
- Subject: Re: Which shell?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:08:50 -0800
At 11:04 -0800 12/3/2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
>
So, does it matter? Will bash run better in 'do shell script' than other
>
shells will?
I switched my Mac OS X users (all of them are me ;-)) to bash, except one I
don't use except for testing what tcsh does, because we mostly use bash at
work.
And in fact on the one old machine at work on which root has "always" run
csh (tcsh's older, weaker uncle), last month I arranged things so that when
I
su
or
su root
(same thing...root is assumed in the former)
I run bash (as a login shell). When I need to run csh, I do
su -
(the - really does something useful here).
I've been much happier since doing that...should have done it three years ago.
All that aside,
1. you should use the shell you like best and which works best for you, and
2. don't worry about whether it "works better" when forced by the !#
line in a script.
If it works best for you when you're using it by hand and writing scripts
for it, it's the one to use.
And be careful...the shell wars in Unix land are nearly as violent as the
editor wars (vi vs emacs, with a little pico on the side). It's nice on
Mac OS X to have TextEdit and BBEdit (and, for a while, Pepper) in the
editor collection, as well.
--John
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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