What is your favorite UNIX shell?

[pianophile]

>why do people like zsh?

Because it is the emacs of shells: every little whizbang shell feature in existence is a builtin or option. It also has the longest and most numerous man(1) pages (and UNIX geeks like man(1) pages).

Check it out:

http://zsh.sunsite.dk/

Oh, my vote is for ksh, btw.

 

[thwomp]

ZSH!

It's great. Scripting and interactive are both fun.

Does anyone know if 10.2 includes version 4.0.x? I have a .zshrc setup for the Suns I use, and it uses some of the new features. 10.1 has 3.0.something...

 

[thwomp]

Good call, testuser. I've actually just been waiting for fink to have a release of it in the stable branch, but hey. I figured it had been tried and didn't work for some reason (hence the unstable), so I was being lazy. I'll go try though. Thanks!