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On August 2, 2016 5:02:43 AM EDT, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 8/2/16, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In the days of Linux and /bin/sh being a link to bash
>
>Would be worse if link was to csh (freebsd curiously use csh
>but only as default interactive root shell). Both defaults indoctrinate
>users poorly, at least for forming noninteractive work.
>

csh as default for root is a long holdover from early BSD days... I'm pretty sure they all default to it.

No sane person would script in csh or tcsh.

John

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