Re: [MLUG] Re: tcsh v. bash (as default shell)

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:

>>> Not to mention command-line *completion*, scoping, and much, much
>>> more!!!
>>
>> Are you talking about things that tcsh doesn't have?  That's what I'm
>> interested in knowing about.
>
> man bash-builtins
>
> Read the section on the 'complete' builtin for a taste of its power.
>
> My Xandros system has a /etc/bash_completion file over 4800 lines long.
>
> By "completion", I mean things like when I launch 'mplayer', for 
> example, when I tab for completion, bash will _only_ list media files, 
> not just files. Wicked cool, as they say in Boston.


Just thought I'd return to this for a second.  I was just reading a bit in 
"man tcsh" and I noticed the section "Completion and listing" and the 
'complete' command in the REFERENCE section.  It looks like tcsh does the 
things described above that bash does.  It would take a lot of work for 
anyone to carefully go through both shells to figure out exactly how one 
is superior to the other.  People usually pick one and stick with it!

I have decided to try to learn bash.  It might take a long time because I 
am so busy with other work, but GNU programs have been very good to me in 
the past and I expect bash to continue to improve.

Mike
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