Re: [PLUG] Book Recommendation

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Bourne shell is the most portable but perhaps the least capable.  zsh 
> is
> one of the most capable but even on Linux systems you'll end up 
> needing to
> install it, let alone on HP-UX.  If you're a competent C programmer you
> might use csh or tcsh.  Sysadmins with primarily legacy UNIX 
> backgrounds
> may prefer ksh while those with Red Hat Linux backgrounds may prefer 
> bash

Legacy is Bourne Shell, then came the csh, then came the new Bourne 
Shell.

Ksh is the Posix shell.

Today tcsh and bash seem to be the most preferred, although I prefer 
zsh myself.
But then I'm a ksh kind of guy...
(One nice thing about OS X, is that it ships with tcsh, bash and zsh!
- sh and csh are links to bash an tcsh respectively.)

As for HP-UX, there is an old joke...

The only reason that AIX is not the worst Unix around is because HP-UX 
is!

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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