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Differences between shells

What is the practical difference among the different shell like
csh , ksh , bash etc.SmilieSmilie
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Old 02-16-2011
Hi.

Among many others, see Comparison of command shells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google and Wikipedia are your friends for factual questions ... cheers, drl
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