From 7a04c68be7671d93fdc85cadff846f6af8685df1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bruce A. Mah" Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 19:56:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update shells description. While I'm here delete some not-quite-as-applicable-as-it-once-was text about shells in ports having "much more power". PR: 31884 Submitted by: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org --- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml index c4d46e48d8..7c56f2fceb 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml @@ -1004,10 +1004,10 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse built in functions to help everyday tasks such a file management, file globing, command line editing, command macros, and environment variables. FreeBSD comes with a set of shells, such as - sh, the Bourne Shell, and csh, - the C-shell. Many other shells are available - from the FreeBSD Ports Collection that have much more power, such as - tcsh and bash. + sh, the Bourne Shell, and tcsh, + the improved C-shell. Many other shells are available + from the FreeBSD Ports Collection, such as + zsh and bash. Which shell do you use? It is really a matter of taste. If you are a C programmer you might feel more comfortable with a C-like shell