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*

Comments

Blatently off-topic.

[pschmied]

Here's a sample .zshrc file for those users more sophisticated than tcsh or bash users :-)

Seriously though, MacOSX includes zsh and just about every Linux and BSD distro has a port. Give it a shot. It's worth it.

# Peter's .zshrc. See http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/librar y/l-z.html?open&l=335,t=gr,p=Z-Shell for more info
# Comfort options
setopt CORRECT AUTO_LIST AUTO_MENU
alias ls='ls -F'
alias ll='ls -laF'
# Tab completion for "cd" only returns directories
compctl -g '*(-/) .*(-/)' cd

# Set the prompt
PROMPT='%m}%~> '

-Peter