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When I started using Unix in the early '90s, zsh was more popular than bash by a long way. And tcsh was more popular still. You had to be a GPL purist or someth
by opk 10y ago
When I started using Unix in the early '90s, zsh was more popular than bash by a long way. And tcsh was more popular still. You had to be a GPL purist or something to want to use bash. Its success is really down to its status as the Linux default. If you try zsh again, you'll find the mailing list and IRC are full of helpful people if some things aren't as you expect.
- pfranz 10y agoAny ideas why tcsh was so popular and bash was considered oddball? A lot of the big old vfx houses I would work for came from Unix, so they still default everyone to tcsh. A lot of their tooling is based around it, so you're kind of required to use tcsh. I like to come up with one-liners when doing stuff as a challenge and not being able to do a for-loop as a single line drove me nuts (keeping it one line is really useful when you're iterating over a command and using history). I also find subshells very handy in bash.