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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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Old 06-19-2008
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KSH is my favourite and I use this flavour for all my needs

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ok, but...
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ksh, because of its vi-cmdline editing mode, its reliable and stable job control (whoever had to deal with csh knows what i mean) and it's great programming language.

bakunin
bash has all that, plus ANSI colors and TAB completion and GREAT programming power.
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Wink hah
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I could not be able to survive without bash-completion...
I second this motion...very strongly...when I have to use sh, which can be quite often, my hand cramps sometimes...COMPLETION COMPLETES ME!
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I could not be able to survive without bash-completion...
Apparently you haven't tried the Z-Shell's completion yet
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I am use ksh for my scripts. Its so simple and can invoke so many others programmer language from inside.
And for work in terminal i am use bourne against shell, for tha aliassing, autocomplet and environment facilities.
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ksh
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