On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> In my opinion, bash is a superior shell to all others. There are two types
> of shells. They are called Bourne flavored and C flavored. csh, tcsh
> are C flavored shells. Bash, ksh, and sh are all Bourne flavored
> shells. For reasons that I'm not going to cover right now, Bash is quite
> superior, but the best book for learning bash is The New Kornshell Command
> and Programming Language by Bolsky & Korn from Prentis Hall. The book is
> relevent because bash is pretty much compliant with Korn shell.
as someone who runs a small training company, it's my experience
that the best shell to use as a *programming* shell is ksh88,
simply because of the licensing issues with ksh93. ksh93 is
not freely and universally available -- it's now owned by a
company called global technologies (www.gtlinc.com).
on the other hand, ksh88 appears to ship with all commercial
versions of unix (aix, solaris, etc.). if this is strictly
a linux question, then sure, bash is the answer. you can also
get ksh93 for linux from www.research.att.com/sw/tools/reuse,
for non-commercial use.
rday
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