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Article #1458Re: flavours of shell - what is there?
From: Don Libes
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 21:12
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 1990 21:12
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In article <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes: >I would be very grateful for any pointers or hints as to >where I can find out what different shells exist, and what >their various pros and cons are. >The ones I know of: sh csh bash ksh 'expect' is a shell intended primarily to control interactive programs. Using expect, you can program things that can only be done interactively with other shells. For example, running telnet, passwd, su, tip, etc, doing job control, etc. Don Libes libes@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!libes From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: flavours of shell - what is there? Message-ID: <7161@muffin.cme.nist.gov> Date: 10 Oct 90 21:12:23 GMT References: <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 13