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Learned scripting using the Korn shell (ksh93) on Unix machines, started using Bash when Linux became available.
I do like Bash (4+), but I rather use Ksh when the newer bash version isn't present and more complicated things need to be scripted. For simple(r) things I tend to use Bash.
Zsh. Very good tab-completion and I really like the widgets and plugin system.
http://slackeee.de/stuff/zsh.png
Zsh in vi-mode, with plugin for syntax-highlighting, widget for indicating which mode I am in embedded in a prompt on the right side that auto-hides when the command gets too long, and the inbuilt menusystem for tab-completion.
Mainly I think because I have learned how bash starts and have adapted all my boxen to rely somewhat on "my own" /etc/bashrc, /etc/bash_completon.d/, ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, etc., etc.
But because I am a Slackware user I have picked up the habit of writing scripts for sh, which I think is worthwhile.
Distribution: RPM Distros,Mostly Mandrake Forks;Drake Tools/Utilities all the way!GO MAGEIA!!!
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It seems that most of my linux installs have buggy bash behavior but I dread trying to learn something in Linux that is not the most popular and not as thoroughly documented.
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