A
possible solution to
shell schizms.
Interactively I
use
csh/
tcsh, mostly 'cause that's
what I was brought
up on and because the
history and
completion features are
much more sane than anything else. But you can't
script in
csh. At least, not sanely.
bash isn't
the answer since
it has many
subtle differences from sh.
What's needed
is a shell with pure bourne shell syntax, with an orthogonal
set of features for convenience of interaction, which are
sufficiently distinguished from the shell's scripting features.
Rather than spawning yet another bourne shell, perhaps
the answer I'm looking for is to write the interactive elements
of the shell as a shell script:
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
echo -n `pwd`": "
read COMMAND
eval $COMMAND
done