Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 15:00:40 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: hmmm@alaska.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Easy editors Message-ID: <199609152100.VAA17954@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <323A63E2.1156@alaska.net> (message from hmmm on Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:50:59 -0700)
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>>>>> hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> writes: > aliasing is better. you can do that with sh also! just add >alias > "sh cmd sequence"< in profile or whatever. It's amazing what I can continue to learn: so FreeBSD's sh support aliases, even. What a wonderful world! :-) > ps. why do i see so much of csh? from everything i read and hear > it broken from the design end on up and it's only benefit is a C > like inequality op? I think tcsh (and csh in a pinch) makes a perfectly fine interactive shell but sh isn't as nicely suited for interactivity. Likewise, csh/tcsh is a terrible scripting shell; but sh is great for scripts. Be sure to read "Csh programming considered harmful" at: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-faq/unix-faq-shell-csh-whynot.html So, my login shell is /usr/local/bin/tcsh. But all the scripts I write are /bin/sh scripts (plus a bunch of tcl and perl scripts for good measure). Take care. --k
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