What's your most useful shell? - Page 11

unilover · #1 (**permalink**) 03-24-2008

Nothing beats the ksh!! It's the greates.

Tornado · #2 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008

bash for shell and sh or ksh for scripting

psiva_arul · #3 (**permalink**) 07-14-2008

Hi,

i use KSH for everything...

Regards,
MPS

guruparan18 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-15-2008

Ok. For me ksh...

nirnay_s · #5 (**permalink**) 06-07-2006

bash is what i find the most useful when i do curses in unix

vermaden · #6 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007

ZSH of course.

for scripts: /bin/sh
for root account: /bin/tcsh

cfajohnson · #7 (**permalink**) 03-02-2007

Whenever possible, I write POSIX-compliant scripts which will run in bash, ksh, ash, and any POSIX shell.

For interactive use, and when I need some non-standard features, I use bash.

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View Poll Results: What's your most useful shell?
/bin/sh	61	8.59%
/bin/csh	34	4.79%
/bin/ksh	295	41.55%
/bin/tcsh	33	4.65%
/bin/bash	287	40.42%
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