learning a shell: korn or bash?

[DWW]

Well I'm embarassed to say this but I'm a C coder who uses FreeBSD and I don't know squat about shell scripting besides the utmost basic tasks heh.

I'd like to know which shell, korn or bash I should take up learning.

It seems like bash is the most popular? (thus more widely available and better to learn I'd think?)

 

[notfred]

You might be better off learning perl or python. Shell scripting is a pain in the ass.

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

I suggest bash....or just c-shell

 

[DWW]

Originally posted by: NoSkillz
I suggest bash....or just c-shell

methinks c-shell would be easier to learn & retain coming from my background 🙂

care to say why do you suggest bash though?

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i like bash ... i like the ability to hit the up arrow key to get the last few commands you typed in.
can other shells do this?

but yes ... learn perl or pyhton

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

the c bible book by ritchie was based on bash i think. I dunno, just how i learned. 😛

 

[Ameesh]

i was in your position too, at work everyone uses ZShell as it seems to be a developer friendly shell. i would reccomend that

 

[DWW]

I know a little perl already, but still want to learn a shell as a personal goal heh.

 

[ManSnake]

Use Korn because the icon is a corn.

 

[DWW]

huh? the icon? 😛

 

[nan0bug]

zsh = pwn

 

[PowerMacG5]

BASH, all hands down.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Use Korn because the icon is a corn.

:beer:

 

[kalster]

if you aer going to learn basic shell scripting, i dont think it matters which one you try stuff on

 

[DWW]

Originally posted by: kalster
if you aer going to learn basic shell scripting, i dont think it matters which one you try stuff on

With all things, I think I'd like to learn it well and with advanced abilities 🙂

 

[crumpet19]

Borne Again SHell... but yeah, shell scripting IS a pain in the ass.

 

[StageLeft]

Stick to windows, no0b!

 

[DWW]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Stick to windows, no0b!

kthx

 

[Linux23]

BASH.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i was in your position too, at work everyone uses ZShell as it seems to be a developer friendly shell. i would reccomend that

I thought for sure you'd recommend DOS... 😉

 

[atom]

I haven't really been keeping up with the progress of each of the shells, but zsh pretty much did everything that both bash and ksh do last I checked, so if you have to learn one, zsh is probably the most powerful and most flexible.

I use bash because I don't do anything too complex with shell scripts on my box, so it really doesn't matter what shell I use..............