Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!calvin From: calvin@sequent.UUCP (Calvin Goodrich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: flavours of shell - what is there? Message-ID: <43508@sequent.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 15:01:02 GMT References: <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: calvin@crg1.sequent.com (Calvin Goodrich) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Lines: 34 In article <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes: >I realise this is a bit of an open question, but ... > >I would be very grateful for any pointers or hints as to >where I can find out what different shells exist, and what >their various pros and cons are. > >The ones I know of are simply: > sh csh bash ksh > >Are there others? Where are they principally available from? >(I've had difficulty locating ksh for SunOS Unix - is it restricted?) > >Many thanks, > Tim here's a little known shell ... nsh: NutSHell, the smallest UnixTM shell yet. Version 1.0 (the only one released so far) includes only 'cd' and 'echo '. GNU-nsh, to be released later this year, is expected to be much more powerful, with built-in Bourne, Korn and C shell emulators. The executable is expected to go from 306 bytes to 7Mb with this release, however. (all this comes with a huge :]. i mean really this is one of the few groups i've seen that hasn't had any injected humor. ripped off without permission from rec.humor.) calvin.