From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 2:54: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2A837B416 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UQTA-000DFc-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:54:00 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id D5A3F454AD; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:53:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:53:59 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shells confusion Message-ID: <20020126105359.GA1005@raggedclown.net> References: <20020126020430.P175-100000@BLAST> <20020126035658.GC1290@raggedclown.net> <20020126070114.C8FD93FE5@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020126091545.GA1022@raggedclown.net> <20020126102843.GA8522@sysadm.stc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020126102843.GA8522@sysadm.stc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:43PM +0300, Igor Roboul wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > view, but from a practical point of view it is a nightmare for most > > people. > I write most of my shell scripts in csh. Becuse I use it for > interractive use and I feel myself much comfortable with csh. These two uses are seperate issues. Tcsh is fine and dandy interactively. > If I need write some script which I can't easy implement in csh then > I use perl. > Well, of course people can use what they like ! I suppose you could just learn perl, I guess it does everything. However, a non-working knowledge of sh scripting is a drawback in the Unix world. This is just a fact. I have very rarely seen it used for system purposes on any of the Unix systems I have worked on -- except perhaps on Ultrix, but then Ultrix was a Unix system that never should have seen the light of day anyway :) The person was asking for advice. I seriously think that it is perverse to advise him if he is going to learn shell-scripting to learn csh script. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message