On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Khepri wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
> > Anything you can use interactively you can use as a scripting laguage and
> > vice versa (I believe). Using perl as your login shell is perverse and
> > difficult, but I believe it is possible. There are lots of scripts written
> > in sh/ash/bsh/zsh/bash/ksh/pdksh, and they are popular login shells too.
> > "sh" -> "shell" after all...
>
> HA! I thought there were only 3 or 4! Are those
> all in a standard kernel?
They're not in the _kernel_. but many of them are available. "ls /bin/*sh"
just for kicks. Some others aren't installed by default but can be.
> That little distro I've been playing around with defaults to bash....
Many do.
> > It's gotten easier since Linux started using GNU's toolchain almost
> > exclusively. "./configure", "make", "su -c 'make install'".
>
> Hmmm, that doesn't look toointimidating..I think I
> can handle that...:) (complete newbie showing through)
Not as easy as "rpm -i <packagename>", but more flexible.
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