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Comments: In-reply-to Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:29:30 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>
> > Would anyone who uses Bash regularly, both interactively and
> > for scripting, really want to go back to using the V7 sh
> > for production work?
>
> I have never used all the fancy stuff in BASH such as the arithmetic
> functions; I still use "expr" etc for portability.
>
> My favourite shell is still ZSH (the alternative was CSH, and my views on 
> that POS are well known) because I started using it long before BASH, and 
> even then I use a fraction of its power.  I did dabble with KSH, though (I 
> needed command editing and history).

csh was more convenient as an interactive shell but it was not
good for writing scripts & I always used /bin/sh for scripts.
I switched from csh to zsh almost since the time it was first
posted to alt.sources - over 29 years ago!