[NCLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - CLI mode

Rob Bayerl verigoth at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 19:03:37 MDT 2008


> This tells me several things.  One is that you mention .login which is
> a csh/tcsh profile.  Blech!  (Spits on the ground.)  Terrible shell.
> Terrible shell scripting language.  I won't hide my opinion about it.
> The Bourne shell is much better and today the POSIX shell for shell
> scripting is the way to go.  Any of bash, ksh, zsh are better choices.

Thanks for showing me my ignorance of things I do not use (namely
tcsh). I think I knew that csh used .login at one point, but I am
known for killing brain cells and unused knowledge is usually the
first to go.



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