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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Which Shell? Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:10:20 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 11 Message-ID: <32A0A2BC.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961130104832.14837A-100000@darkstar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Charles Mott wrote: > > I am a relatively new to unix, so I have not formed irreversible opinions > about which shell is best. I started out on linux before switching to > freebsd, so I became accustomed to bash. With regard to posix compliance > and compatibility with commercial unix systems (sun, hp, sgi), which shell > would be the most appropriate to standardize on? > I would tend to use BASH. Check out your code with ksh also. John