On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:15:22PM -0200, Toshiro wrote: } > Note that I write all my shell scripts for /bin/sh, not zsh or bash or csh } > or tcsh. I even try to avoid using GNU extensions to standard tools like } > sed, tr, and grep (though sometime they are just too useful to work } > around). I've migrated from Ultrix to SunOS to FreeBSD to IRIX to Solaris } > to Linux to MacOS X over the years and my scripts keep on working; I'm } > ready for the next migration, whatever and whenever it may be (God help me, } > it might be cygwin). For an interactive shell, however, nothing beats tcsh. } } Is tcsh better than zsh? I've just moved to zsh from bash (I'm tired of its } poor command completion) and it's so cool that I can't imagine anything } better.
AFAICT, zsh and tcsh are pretty nearly equally good, for some definition of good. If I were willing to put the effort into it, I expect I could port all of my tcsh shell customizations to zsh without compromising any of the features I have grown used to. A quick look at its man page seems to indicate that it has a superset of tcsh's features (n.b. that's features, not syntax). If I didn't have around 600 lines of tcsh configuration I'd have to port, I'd probably switch to zsh. Someday I might. I do prefer sh-like syntax to t-/csh's syntax. If you are switching shells anyway, go with zsh. } Toshiro. --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
