Re: Questions

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

delmar watkins wrote:

> As to Ben Ford's comment of:
>
> > Ever used Bash?  ;)  That is what the tab is for!
>
> Astute point, and BASH is certainly a really good shell.  The first thing I did on
> my MacOSX box at home was donwload Bash so I coudl actually use the command shell.
> So yeah, I realize that tab exists.  However, if you have ever used Cisco IOS, you
> will see just how bad Bash is compared to a real command-line syntax created before
> 1980 (Actually, I don't know how old IOS is, but I think it was made after that, and
> I think bash was made after that, too, but with the Same Old Syntax grafted on to it
> <wink>).

Truly a fitting comment to a sarcastic ass like myself. :)

Another shell that has some great features is zsh.  It actually has a 
rudimentary spell check built in.

qwerty% lls
zsh: correct 'lls' to 'ls' [nyae]?

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