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Re: shells & re: profile
Many times i changed the root shell to tcsh
Is it bad or can produce problems ?
Ofer Maor wrote:
> As a matter of fact, this is not quite true.
> Linux comes with bash and tcsh, which are free extensions to commercial
> existing shells sh and csh.
> sh - the first shell that was written (known as Bourne shell), come with all
> commercial unices, and provides strong shell scripting capabilites, and
> backwards compatability to all the unix gurus whereever they are.
> Csh - provides a more intuitive environment for C programmers who are used
> to C.
>
> bash (born again shell) and tcsh (Turbo C Shell) give full backwards
> compatability to sh and csh in means of shell scripting, but includes in
> them more features (as filenames completion, use of arrows, etc.).
>
> Tcsh IS today the most common shell for users, as it is the easiet to use
> and operate, and is commonly known. Linux's default shell is bash (as many
> other unices's default shell is sh), but it does not mean that most of the
> linux communit actually uses it.
>
> On many systems you'll find that only the superuser is using sh/bash, while
> all users are being assigned tcsh as their default shell.
>
> (P.S. - assuming a system administrator did not disable it, any user can
> change his own default shell using the command chsh).
>
> Ofer.
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