What's your most useful shell? - Page 8

BOFH · #50 (**permalink**) 08-24-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corona688

bash. It lets you group things in useful ways some don't realize. You can redirect the output of not just individual programs, but entire loops.

Code:

for ((N=0; N<10; N++))
do
    echo "This is line ${N}"
done > lines.txt

Funny, I can do that in ksh too and do it on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX (my current work environment).

Carl

vermaden · #51 (**permalink**) 02-20-2007

ZSH of course.

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

duke0001 · #52 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007

root /sbin/sh, application user /bin/ksh

cfajohnson · #53 (**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.

varungupta · #54 (**permalink**) 03-03-2007

I do use bash and someimes csh too.
bash was one of the old shells and hence used for most progs.
csh gives flexibility to prog. concepts.

ghostdog74 · #55 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007

the Python shell.

andryk · #56 (**permalink**) 03-08-2007

Well bash on linux, and ksh on *nix for its vi-style cmd-line history which i find quite useful

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View Poll Results: What's your most useful shell?
/bin/sh	61	8.62%
/bin/csh	34	4.80%
/bin/ksh	295	41.67%
/bin/tcsh	33	4.66%
/bin/bash	285	40.25%
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