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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:51:15 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
Cc:        Olivier Regnier <oregnier@oregnier.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with sed command and csh
Message-ID:  <20070618185115.GB2196@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <200706181228.41947.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
References:  <467269EE.6090001@oregnier.net> <467284F9.7090005@oregnier.net> <4673E72A.3050706@oregnier.net> <200706181228.41947.nvass@teledomenet.gr>

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On 2007-06-18 12:28, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote:
> Last but not least, do you have use csh?  It's not recommend for
> scripting.

This must be the most sensible thing I've read in the entire thread.

Quoting rules aside, tcsh is a nice interactive shell, but there are far
too many annoyances in the expansion rules, and differences between what
one has to type in an interactive shell prompt and in a script.

If you have a choice, please use /bin/sh, bash or ksh :-)





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