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View Poll Results: What's your most useful shell?
/bin/sh 53 9.01%
/bin/csh 31 5.27%
/bin/ksh 247 42.01%
/bin/tcsh 31 5.27%
/bin/bash 226 38.44%
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bash for me (although the /bin location is rather dubious)

As a mac/linux/sun admin, I like that it seems to have the least cross-platform issues. Plus, as previously stated, the vi-style history mode is brilliant.

I write all my scripts in bash, and have for years now, so I suppose I'm a bit of a bash guru
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I use Ksh all the time...its best for me
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I use bash and tcsh.
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Shell features Compare

Bourne Shell --Very old Shell,not that many Functionalities

C shell -- No VI Command line editing ,follow C rules.

Korn shell -- Have features of both Bourne and some of C, and has Powerful VI Command line Editing.

bash Shell -- Have all the features including Command line
editing ,substitution commands

Mostly Developers prefer ksh.

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I could not be able to survive without bash-completion...
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bash is what i find the most useful when i do curses in unix
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for Linux i use bash and SCO I use ksh.
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