On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> As compared to what? One of the most common "high functionality" shells
> is bash, but its syntax is quite, ahem, "squirrely", too -- IMO, of
> course :)

> I'd like to know a shell that's common and ideally free (so that scripts
> can be shared), that is multi-platform (the common platforms) and that
> has a consistent and intuitive syntax. Any ideas?
>

Bash? ;-)

But if you do not like Bash. then you probably do not like similar
Unix Shells like dash, csh, ksh, tclsh, zsh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_%28computing%29

The non-Unix shell are typically not cross-platform. Probably Rexx
is an exception. The OS/2 guys here may like it. Rob Hamerling
sure likes it.
Eg: http://www.robh.nl/jal/index.php

Even for Windows, Microsoft is now promoting PowerShell.

> This is exactly what I'm talking about... even people who normally know
> their stuff seem to approach cmd.exe with a mindset of "it can't do it
> anyway (because command.com twenty years ago couldn't do it)" and won't
> even look whether it can do it.
>

There must be a reason, right? cmd.exe can probably do what you
want with (lot of) efforts. Yet you can do things easier with other
shells, like bash.

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