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Red Hat Nullifies Differences Between Bash, Csh

Andreas(R) writes "Red Hat Software has revealed that future versions of the distribution will hide the differences between command-line user interfaces, creating a 'more unified shell prompt experience'. 'I don't mind if they rebrand and unify the GNOME and KDE interfaces,' said one Linux longhair. 'Frankly, I rarely use GUIs. But when they start messing with my CLI, then it's personal. I'm not going to sit here and let Red Hat infect my beloved tcsh with those annoying quirks from bash." Ah, nothing like satire that only a small group will truly grok. *grin*

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  1. Re:hm by Arandir · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    how are they going to manage to avoid the thousands of #!/bin/bash scripts?

    All those thousands of scripts need to be burned anyway. bash does not belong under /bin. That's where sh and csh live. bash is NOT sh.

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