Re: Shell Philosophy (Re: bash shell)

[Claus <cniesen@gmx.net>]

I love the idea of picking a shell and getting to know it .  However, I'm 
stuck with picking one.  I looked at quite a bit of information about 
choosing your shell and the general consensus seems to be to pick the shell 
that covers your need/task.  But I'm not even sure what my needs 
are.  Basically I'll be doing system administrative stuff on a OpenBSD 
firewall and OpenBSD Server (Apache, PHP, MySQL).  What shell(s) do you 
suggest I should and shouldn't use.  Currently I use the default shells of 
OpenBSD (root: csh, users: ksh).  Thanks for the "su -m" tip.  Definitely 
something that is useful.  Thanks.

There are just to many man pages out there, to little brain in my head and 
not enough time on my hands. :)

At 10:49 AM 01/16/2001, Luke Bakken wrote:
>When someone asks about shells, or text editors, I tell them this: find
>one you like, and use it exclusively, learning every nook and cranny so
>tht it becomes an extension of you when you use the computer.  About two
>months ago I decided to use nothing but vi(m) for my text editing on UNIX
>or Windows, and decided to learn every nook and cranny of the program.
>Instead of not thinking aand hitting the down arrow 10 times to move down,
>I would force myself to step back and say, "how can I do this better?" and
>then proceed to do 10j or } or somthing like that.  Now editing text files
>is unbelievably fast and easy.  Same thing with your shell - choose it and
>learn it!