From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 31 05:30:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B280216A4CE for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:30:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B6EB43D1F for ; Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:30:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 2194 invoked by uid 55300); 31 Dec 2004 05:30:17 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:30:16 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <49B5BEF2.7CCF22F4.0F75C5EC@netscape.net> <1104458982.622.3.camel@chaucer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Shell Games X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:30:18 -0000 On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Nicolas Mackintosh wrote: > I've always looked at the shell as a very personal thing. Some will > prefer Bash, others will want to play with something completely > different. It's a bit like having a favorite hammer... Only a lot more > elegant! Heh...you have not seen my work then :) My two cents, though: I started out in a multi-platform environment and thus choose Bourne Shell for scripting (and still had to learn the sed, awk, etc differences since most shells are pretty useless alone.) As time goes by, I suspect it's less of an issue even for the few folks who find themselves in such a position. I will mention, though, that knowing Bourne Shell and portability issues can come in handy for working with autoconf, and that is likely a more common demand these days. FWIW, I've always used 'tcsh' interactively, but almost switched a while back out of disgust at not being able to figure out how to get a one-line foreach/{do_something}/end loop (which would allow me to re-run a complex command easily.) Thanks, - Tom