Shell Games

Nikolas Britton freebsd at nbritton.org
Thu Dec 30 17:51:18 PST 2004


John Murphy wrote:

>Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays at rogers.com> wrote:
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>>My personal preference is Bash. It is readily available on most Unixes,
>>and has a good selection of features.  I don't so much like the csh/tcsh
>>family, which have a somewhat different syntax. 
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>I particularly like the history mechanism which is enabled for the
>default csh/tcsh with FreeBSD.  The recent usage of any command is
>recalled by typing a few letters and then up arrow.  Bash probably
>can do it too and would have similar 'TAB' file name completion.
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>But then - I remember thinking doskey was cool :)
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Doskey was cool! :-)



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