What Shell do you use?

[hobbes2112]

I have always used csh in Unix, and bash in Linux. I guess this is due to the fact that they are the standard and I never learned anything better about any of the other ones.

What do you like? Why?

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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
-MAJ. HOLDREDGE USMC

[sourdaisy]

I run both FreeBSD and linux. I like the bash shell the best, probably because that's what I started on. For root though, I use csh because that's just another thing different so I don't forget. I do like the line-completion much better with bash though.

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"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free"
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[RangerBFK]

I like bash, but thats what i learned on. I find myself installing bash, the binutils, J.O.E., and fileutils on every OS/Computer i use

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"Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT." — Jonathan Gilpin

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are."

"Asking if you should upgrade to XP is like asking whether you should get kicked in the nutz, do your really want to get kicked in the nutz?"
-Me

[rock]

tcsh is the only thing I use anymore. I always like csh before, but once I tried tcsh a couple years ago, there's no turning back. It's like csh on steroids.

[blppt]

Originally posted by hobbes2112:
I have always used csh in Unix, and bash in Linux. I guess this is due to the fact that they are the standard and I never learned anything better about any of the other ones.

What do you like? Why?

I wasnt even aware there was anything other than bash. LOL. I'd call myself a newbie, but everytime i hear that word it irks me....

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tcsh kicks ***!!

[hobbes2112]

no Korn Shell people? that is kind of a suprise....

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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
-MAJ. HOLDREDGE USMC

[rock]

Originally posted by hobbes2112:
no Korn Shell people? that is kind of a suprise....

We have a few Korn die hards around the office here, but I notice they're just a vocal minority. A lot of people who aren't on the Unix system often just stick to csh. Those who are on a lot, we talk them into tcsh pretty quickly

[jtshaw]

I use ksh for the most part, but that is just what I am used to.

[port22]

I like tcsh as my general purpose shell, and bash as my scripting shell.

csh is bad bad bad for scripting, bash is a lot better, I have found.

Here's my tcsh prompt:
{\033]0;%n\@%m\a%}%S%T%s[%B%n@%m]%/%S>%b%s

Use it in an xterm or decent terminal emulator on windows (like putty) and it gives you your username@host as the title and then the prompt looks like this:

17:31[higels@alf2]/home/h/higels>

tcsh also has set watch, which alerts you when a specific person or people log onto the system. It works pretty well.... the syntax looks like this:

set watch (1 username1 any username2 any etc.)

If you do set watch(1 any any)

it'll tell you exactly when and where someone logged on. Pretty useful.

[zteck]

I like bash (line completion rocks) I find myself hitting tab in windows. lol. I wil sometimes hit tab when trying to type a url. It just makes me wish unix could be everywhere.

*You know your in trouble when you try to hit tab when writing on paper* (i am not THAT bad)

I have a question though, what are some of the variables that I could put in my .bashrc to change the prompt?

I want the time and such.

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Where did that file go?
I thought I put it here in the /dev/null directory? hummmm.

[jtshaw]

At work the few NT machines we have do line completion in dos, you have to add a line to the registry to make it work. Of course it doesn't work as well as it does in bash.

[hobbes2112]

I have line completion in csh....it is escape.

I think I had to "turn it on" though with a shell variable.

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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer!"
-MAJ. HOLDREDGE USMC

[port22]

Originally posted by zteck:
I have a question though, what are some of the variables that I could put in my .bashrc to change the prompt?

I want the time and such.

Check the bash-prompt howto on linuxdoc.org...

I know that tcsh has file name completion, and it can be done in Windows as well. Get tweakUI