Is it worthwhile acquiring/learning the bash shell over korn?
I’m looking for more than just opinion or taste. Has anyone converted from korn (or csh or whatever) to bash and will go to lengths to ensure that bash is available on all the machines they work with?
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I switched to bash a few years ago (from zsh) and have never looked back.
I’ve found very few systems that don’t have bash on them, and so see it as a very standard was to ensure that your shell scripts are pretty universally usable.
I’ve switched from tcsh to bash several years (and then actually on to zsh; I wonder why sferik switched from zsh to bash). I especially find the scripting much more clearer. Also, I believe there’s less difference between ksh and bash than between (t)csh and bash, so you should be relatively safe from drastic changes.
I will certainly ensure bash is around (or zsh otherwise), especially for my scripts.
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