Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th May 2008 07:54 UTC, submitted by fairynomo
Tuesday, we linked to an interview with one of the creators of AWK, over at ComputerWorld. From the same series comes an interview with Chat Ramney, maintainer of BASH, the Bourne Again Shell. BASH is the default shell on most UNIX systems, and has been ported to Windows, MS-DOS, the Amiga, and just about everywhere else.
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No week passes without using bash. I use bash very often, although it is mainly for issuing simple commands like cd, rm -r, find -i foo* and vi.
Recently, I read about zsh. I tried it for a few seconds, but I preferred bash' tab completion better than zsh's. Still, I should give zsh a better try. Are there some users here who can elaborate on zsh vs bash? This summer, I want to learn my girlfriend to use Linux and a *nix shell, and I have to choose between bash and zsh. Zsh is more modern, but bash is included in the default install of most distros.
That said, I am very happy with bash. It never let me down, it's easy to use, and more advanced uses are possible too. Thumbs up for bash!