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Re: bash conversion trouble.
On Feb 25, 9:05pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} Sure, but I've always presumed that bash is 'like' sh, for obvious
} reasons so the likeness would come from the parent. Why was there zsh
} and bash anyway? It seems to me that the goals would have been so
} similar that two projects were a duplication of effort.
There was no zsh "project"; it was developed by a single student (Paul
Falstad) at Princeton for use by himself and other students on the
time-sharing system there. There weren't outside contributors until a
few years later after the sources appeared on the comp.sources.unix
newsgroup.
The goals were not at all similar. Bash was an effort to re-create the
Bourne shell under the GPL; zsh was an effort to introduce structured
shell language and scripting to csh users.
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