flavours of shell - what is there?

[Morten Ronseth]

In article <4278 at ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc at 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 at QMW we have a New And Improved version of csh called gsh
(the guy who wrote it is called George). It is essentially the same
as csh, but with advanced command-line editing facilities and
history retrieval. I'm not sure I can give it to you, it's
copyrighted college...

		Morten.
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