Todd Walton wrote:
On this note: Having never tried anything other than bash, and not
having any heavy-duty scripting needs, what shell would you recommend
I try, and why? I've heard korn is interesting.
If you are not scripting, I wouldn't recommend korn. I use korn an AIX
and it is great for scripting, though not any better than bash. Bash
tries to emulate most of korn's functions anyway. If you want to try
something different for normal shell usage, I would recommend playing
with zsh. I like bash for command line usage. It has some nice
interactive features, but I am Stewart's camp when it comes to script
writing. Use the least common denominator, and that is sh. That isn't
the case in AIX. There we use korn for virtually everything. I hate
having to convert korn scripts to something else, and that is where bash
is handy, since it can do most of the korn functions. There are
significant differences between ksh93 and pdksh, so you don't really get
a good feel for korn from pdksh.
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