Bourne Again

[mirrorshard]

Haven't used a shell properly for years, apart from the Disc's frankly broken implementation. So I'm trying to get used to it again, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to start on bash rather than tcsh, which was what I always used to work with back at York and at Cranfield. After all, flexibility's good, right? And since I'm going to have to get used to speaking Debian at it rather than Irix or Sunspeak, I may as well go the whole hog.

A quick tour through man bash to check that it used sh syntax rather than csh - ah, fi and esac, how I missed thee - and away we go.

Comments

[uon.livejournal.com]

Use zsh (http://www.zsh.org/). You want to. Really.

[kake]

And it's even installed (I think this was your fault).

[bob]

evil!
do not stray from the true path