missing programs, books for beginners?

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:08 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 05:16 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> >> Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:18:28 -0700
> >> > Sharon Ruck <ruckster at curlewagape.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Howdy!
> >> >> I'm new to Linux, my ex was the guru.  I have worked a tiny amount in 
> >> >> Unix about 10 years ago in Antarctica.  Windows xp expert (installs, 
> >> >> repairs, etc), piece of junk....
> >> >
> >> > Ubuntu departs from the UNIX world in many ways; one of them is to make
> >> > lots of stuff graphical.  
> >> 
> >> Just like the desktop UNIX versions (OS X, Solaris, Irix, ...) do. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > If you want to hang out in command line world, may I recommend you use
> >> > bash as your shell rather than that hideous default, whatever it is,
> >> > in ubuntu?
> >> 
> >> bash is the default. I recommend zsh for interactive use.
> >> 
> > I believe you mean dash.
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-07-11 21:27 /bin/sh -> dash
> 
> dash ist used for /bin/sh, but bash is used as the default login shell for users.
> 
> 
>    Florian
> -- 
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/>
> 

By George, you are right.

~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash



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