[X-Unix] Re: Korn shell?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in April Timothy Luoma assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Jaguar to Panther changed the default shell from tcsh to bash, correct? 
|  I'd be surprised if they changed the default shell again.  tcsh is a 
| bit of an ugly hack shell IMO whereas bash is much more widely 
| compatible with a number of scripts.  

Most scripts will specify the shell to be used in the shebang. The fancy
name given to the #! in first line of the script which looks something
like:

#!/bin/sh

So changing your default shell shouldn't affect any scripts as long as the
scripts specify their own shell. Personally, I feel that any scripts which
make use of shell specific commands or syntax should have a shebang line.
Given that Apple changed the default shell in the last release of OS X, I
doubt they would do so again.

| I don't know much about ksh (I'm a zsh guy myself) but I feel fairly 
| confident in saying that bash will remain, as tcsh did, even if it 
| isn't the default.

I don't know much about ksh either. I'm a bash person because I got my unix
start (for the most part) on Linux. Though, a friend tells me that zsh is
really nice.

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