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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:00:42 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shell inconsistency - csh should remove
Message-ID:  <14911.41546.557360.280965@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <26193661@toto.iv>

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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> types:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:23:24AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> > I mean learn cycle,  if I learn csh scripts too long, then I may be confused by scripts in FreeBSD system, 
> > for example /etc/rc.* scripts, you wrote all scripts in sh shell style,  but I am now familiar with csh,  they are different, 
> > incompatible,  and feel uncomfortable.
> If you don't feel like using csh, then don't use it. There aren't any
> csh scripts on the system, so I don't see what your problem is. Wars
> about shell-preferences don't belong in freebsd-questions. Your
> preference isn't everyone else's preference, so let it go.

While there aren't any csh scripts in the base system, there are in
the ports. Then again, there are also perl scripts, python scripts,
awk scripts and sed scripts in the ports. In these cases, it's just
another scripting language you have to deal with. Since the real work
is done by commands, not the shell, reading it is about as trivial as
such can be.

You might as well propose that the Gnome (or KDE) folks close up shop
and switch as propose that csh (or sh) go away.

	<mike



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