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From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: flavours of shell - what is there?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 21:12:23 GMT
References: <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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In article <4278@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
>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:   sh   csh   bash   ksh

'expect' is a shell intended primarily to control interactive programs.
Using expect, you can program things that can only be done interactively
with other shells.  For example, running telnet, passwd, su, tip, etc,
doing job control, etc.

Don Libes          libes@cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes