Apple Switches tcsh for bash

Posted by pudge on Tuesday August 26, 2003 @02:45AM from the one-less-thing-to-change-for-new-accounts dept.

gklinger writes "AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has switched from tcsh to bash in the the latest developer build (7B44) of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). There is speculation that the switch was made to appeal to Linux users. Experienced users get pretty religious about their shells so what remains to be seen is how diehard tcsh users will react." I don't know about appealing to Linux users in particular, but I just don't know many people who prefers tcsh these days, on any platform. It seems like everyone is using bash or zsh.

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Re:One of my biggest girpes about OS X by mcgroarty · 2003-08-26 03:12 · Score: 0, Troll

It just sucks when you see something that's so close to being "right," but seems to miss the mark on something so fundamental.
It's the same mentality that's behind different Islamic sects hating each other even more than they hate Christians.
Re:*CSH IS DYING by daeley · 2003-08-26 04:15 · Score: 3, Troll

Not to nitpick, but one can run softwareupdate as nonroot in order to check for updates, then sudoing it for the actual install.

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