Unix Shell Tips

I use a variety of shells, but I mainly use 3:

Default (Preferred) Shell

bash - available on most systems (but an option extra on BSD systems), preferred for general interactive and scripting uses

Secondary Shell

zsh - Behaves like bash, but also provides a watch variable to monitor specific user logins/logouts. I use zsh on multi user systems where I find a watch variable useful.

zsh Tips

System Testing Shell

tcsh - Being an admin of various BSD systems, I also use tcsh, mainly to pretend to be an average user with no environment customisations