Hello freesurfer gurus, I noticed on the wiki that they recommend using tcsh when running freesurfer, although they say other shells can be used. Is there a significant advantage to using tcsh when running freesurfer? If I would rather use bash is there any significant reason not to? Warmest regards, -Jared
I think tcsh are recommended for historical reasons. However you can use bash. ----------------------------------------------------------- Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Junior Diretor de Operações Netfilter & SpeedComm Telecom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:02, Jared Price jcp44@bwh.harvard.edu wrote:
Hello freesurfer gurus, I noticed on the wiki that they recommend using tcsh when running freesurfer, although they say other shells can be used. Is there a significant advantage to using tcsh when running freesurfer? If I would rather use bash is there any significant reason not to? Warmest regards, -Jared _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
On Friday 28 November 2008 09:02:33 Jared Price wrote:
Hello freesurfer gurus, I noticed on the wiki that they recommend using tcsh when running freesurfer, although they say other shells can be used. Is there a significant advantage to using tcsh when running freesurfer? If I would rather use bash is there any significant reason not to?
You can use 'bash' as your conventional shell without any ill-effect FreeSurfer-wise. I myself use bash and not tcsh. Remember, of course, to just source the bash-script equivalent setup scripts (i.e. SetUpFreeSurfer.sh)...
HTH -=R
Jared,
The only requirement is that tcsh is installed on your system, as some freesurfer scripts use it (for instance, recon-all is a tcsh script, but you can run it within bash). We 'recommend' tcsh only because many of the wiki examples assume it as the shell.
Nick
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 09:02 -0500, Jared Price wrote:
Hello freesurfer gurus, I noticed on the wiki that they recommend using tcsh when running freesurfer, although they say other shells can be used. Is there a significant advantage to using tcsh when running freesurfer? If I would rather use bash is there any significant reason not to? Warmest regards, -Jared _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
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