[xenadu02]

> Bash init files may not be particularly feature rich, but they are hardly "complicated".

Are you trying to make the argument that shell scripts are simple, easy to read, and maintainable?

Permit me to disagree.

[lisivka]

Yep, they are. Shell is lingua franca for system administrators for whole history of UNIX.

[rodgerd]

Which one? ash? csh? tcsh? ksh?

I don't think you have as much experience with Unix as you would like us to think you do.

[prewett]

What do you mean which one? It's /bin/sh. /bin/sh has always been the shell used, because it's the only one guaranteed to be on all unixen. No system ships their init scripts written in ash, csh, tcsh, ksh, or anything besides /bin/sh (except Linux, which may have used /bin/bash, since /bin/sh was symlinked to /bin/bash)

You might have made your personal init scripts in some other shell (until you learned about design failures of csh), but I'm willing to bet your Unix distributor did not.