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		burgerbrain on Jan 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Unix shell IIRC, the default shell on many BSDs is tcsh. I guess it was probably csh before that in some point in history. That might have something to do with it.

SomeOtherGuy on Jan 10, 2012 [–]

Only FreeBSD. OpenBSD and NetBSD aren't that fucked up.

burgerbrain on Jan 10, 2012 | [–]

And OSX prior to 10.3 apparently.

Hemospectrum on Jan 11, 2012 | | [–]

Inherited from FreeBSD, of course.

Everyone complained so they changed it.

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