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Re: shells & re: profile



It is not bad.
I do it too.
Many system administrators like, however, to use sh/bash.

In any case - it IS important that your tcsh will be on the root partition
(e.g. - if ur tcsh is under /usr/local/bin/tcsh, and /usr is only mounted
later on - don't use it as your root's default shell) - to allow you better
operability in case of mount problems.

ofer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il>
To: Ofer Maor <oferm@hcs.co.il>
Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: יום חמישי 11 פברואר 1999 14:17
Subject: 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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