[nycbug-talk] Shell Newbie

Ray Lai nycbug at cyth.net
Wed Apr 12 10:09:12 EDT 2006


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:58:11AM -0400, Huy Ton That wrote:
> Hey all, I've always used the bash shell and wanted to get into some shell
> scripting.  Before I started, I curious to see if anyone had any feedback as
> far as other shells are out there and just get a feel for the general
> preference if any exists; speaking purely for flexibility.

I try to stick to generic Bourne shell scripting, which works with
both Korn shell and Bash.  But then, I'm pretty oblivious as to
what is Korn and what isn't, since I can test it on pdksh.

Whenever I need examples I look in the /etc/rc* scripts, which your
operating system may or may not have (anymore).

-Ray-



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