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Bash isn't the end-all of Unix shells.
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Bash isn't the end-all of Unix shells.
- pjmlp 11y agoNo, but it seems people nowadays (young users that equate GNU/Linux == UNIX) only know bash.
- dragontamer 11y agoI have played with ksh and others. But when it comes down to writing something that others use, you can almost always rely on BASH being installed on their machine. The other shells... not so much. I hear zsh is pretty good though.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI was more referring to the likes of es, rc and Inferno sh. The rest are all just variants of Bourne or C shell in some way, and even then Bourne and C don't have much in the way of compelling differences.