I'm quite a big fan of shell scripting. I use scripts to automate many tasks (normally in conjunction with cron). I've always preferred using bash, opposed to (t)csh. Having just stumbled across this 12 year old post I'm glad I chose bash. Hours of troubleshooting have been avoided!
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
