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Expecting BASH to win but I'm curious...

Are you porting an existing shell to your OS or making you own?

command.com FTW

//EDIT: I'm making my own shell, I want my OS to be other than today's OSes.

Korn shell, pdksh in particular.

Bash on linux, cmd on windows. The only reason for me running cygwin's bash is to have access to a unix style rootkit to do those things windows programs makes a mess of (configure+make and find+grep combos). Bash alone can't do it, and neither can cmd alone.

Basically its cygwin's bloat that puts me off more than the tiny bit of advantage bash has over cmd. If I were actively working on a dated windows which didn't have autocompletion that might be a different story though.

*flips a coin, votes bash*

Combuster wrote:Bash on linux, cmd on windows. The only reason for me running cygwin's bash is to have access to a unix style rootkit to do those things windows programs makes a mess of (configure+make and find+grep combos). Bash alone can't do it, and neither can cmd alone.

Basically its cygwin's bloat that puts me off more than the tiny bit of advantage bash has over cmd. If I were actively working on a dated windows which didn't have autocompletion that might be a different story though.

*flips a coin, votes bash*

rootkit != toolkit.

To M$, it is

Combuster wrote:To M$, it is

Touché.

I accidentally voted Bourne. I meant to vote bash!

iammisc wrote:I accidentally voted Bourne. I meant to vote bash!

Enabled vote changing.

My knowledge of Linux is terrible, I don't even know the name of the shell that was installed on the systems at my college that I had to use. I liked it better than Bash, whatever it was, but I use Bash with Cygwin so of the Linux shells I suppose I'd go with it.

I have tremendously more experience with Windows and CMD though, and in the end I'm more comfortable with it. Less features maybe, but it works for me.

Up until I started OS Deving, Cmd. Now it's Bash. For the first time last week, I actually started typing Bash commands in Cmd automatically

I would love to port Bash to my OS and there seem to be a few hobby OS projects which have done this in the past (sorry - can't remember who has done this now).

Cheers,
Adam

AJ wrote:Up until I started OS Deving, Cmd. Now it's Bash. For the first time last week, I actually started typing Bash commands in Cmd automatically

I would love to port Bash to my OS and there seem to be a few hobby OS projects which have done this in the past (sorry - can't remember who has done this now).

Cheers,
Adam

vista shell aliases ls to dir for this reason.

also i remember JamesM having posted about bash on his OS, and I think alexetreme did too ( along with gcc )

Yeah, CMD is 2nd!! It's not forgotten!
Hehe, seems that not only I grew up on MS-DOS and Win9x

Hehe, seems that not only I grew up on MS-DOS and Win9x

I grew up with MS-DOS 5 (after we got rid of the BBC Acorn). When we had a computer with enough power, we upgraded DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. At that time, Win9x would have seemed extremely advanced

Cheers,
Adam

inflater wrote:Yeah, CMD is 2nd!! It's not forgotten!
Hehe, seems that not only I grew up on MS-DOS and Win9x

That reminds me, why isn't AmigaDOS CLI on the list?