Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Mon Apr 13 01:48:07 UTC 2020


Steve Kargl wrote this message on Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 15:48 -0700:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:32:36PM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > 	Given that the only other base system shell option is csh, I opt out of both and always install bash (I haven???t quite jumped on the zsh train yet).
> > Thanks,
> 
> tcsh != csh

well, on FreeBSD they're the same:
$ls -li /bin/*csh
182 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  394712 Jun  2  2016 /bin/csh*
182 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  394712 Jun  2  2016 /bin/tcsh*

It's not clear from FreeBSD's man page if tcsh behaves like csh when
invoked as such, or if it always behaves as tcsh...

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