I finally got sick of not having proper shell redirection, and set my Mac OS X box to use bash as my shell. Basically, I ran:
Then I just needed to set up .bash_profile and .bashrc (using source /sw/bin/init.sh instead of .csh for the fink init file), and set my prefs to use the right shell. For this, I ran:
Then in Terminal.app I set it to use the default login for this user.
You wanted proper redirection and you went for bash? What about zsh? You get way better globbing and completion with that, too.
lsAlso, you do get the extremely useful feature from csh of being able to do cmd >& output, which is undeniably useful (although it is convenient to have alternative redirections).
Still, if you must use bash, don't forget to check out bash programmable completion.
Re:Bash?!?
pudge on 2002-08-14T11:34:54
OR, I could just use what I happen to like best... Re:Bash?!?
Dom2 on 2002-08-14T12:03:39
Trouble is, that doesn't mean it's the best fit for you. Lots of people "like" windows, too...
-Dom
Re:Bash?!?
pudge on 2002-08-14T12:07:47
Actually, it means exactly that.
