FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh

Post by vermaden » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

xenophonf wrote: post #27

A die-hard tcsh user myself, I mourn the end of an era, but has anyone done serious scripting in the C shell? I jokingly call it a sin in the eyes of the LORD, but seriously, it really, really sucks compared to even just the POSIX shell. It's probably time for me to finally give into Bash or zsh or something equally modern. Might be nice to get access to all of those shell completion hooks some tools have—not because…

Post by AceJohnny2 » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:36 PM UTC

reacharavindh wrote: post #36

agumonkey wrote: post #21

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That says a thing or too about habits. Was he pissed or was it just a light comment ? I'd be sad to see an educated person refuse interesting new tricks (readline causes no regression or loss right ?)

It's delicate. The noob me chased after new tricks with much more enthusiasm than the current me. Over time, priorities change, and now I just want to get stuff done and for tools to get out of the way. I'd appreciate new tricks that bring quite a lot of benefit to my workflow, but the little tricks I'd rather let fly past me. If the tools such as base environment changes way too often, I'd be annoyed as well - not b…

Post by riffraff » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #21

dekhn wrote: post #11

We once upgraded a major research department from csh to tcsh (while also migrating most users to bash). A senior leader complained that when they hit the up arrow, the last command they typed showed up. I explained how to disable readline

That says a thing or too about habits. Was he pissed or was it just a light comment ? I'd be sad to see an educated person refuse interesting new tricks (readline causes no regression or loss right ?)

Post by commandersaki » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #26

WalterGR wrote: post #3

In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to become a usable interractive shell: - command completion - ... Too much bloat for my tastes.

Can install dash from ports collection. Should work fine as scripting shell in place of this one.

Post by mst » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #71

severino wrote: post #29

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I wonder what he was using the up arrow key for in the shell.

How do you know he was a he?