Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:20:08 -0400 From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file completion Message-ID: <20010519182008.R21410@storm.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010520000947.B60427@rapier.smartspace.co.za>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:09:47AM %2B0200 References: <20010519171449.P21410@storm.ca> <20010519232145.A16105@student.uu.se> <20010519180703.Q21410@storm.ca> <20010520000947.B60427@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
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On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:09:47AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>=20
> That centred around programming in it, not interactive use, iirc.
Yeah, but I still can't accept the way environment variables, aliases a=
nd
shell redirection are handled in csh. We use it at work, and I hate it. I h=
ave
a hack to start bash, but I have to help others using csh all the time.=20
Something as simple as=20
find / -name "*.c" -print 2>/dev/null
is very difficult to do in csh because it doesn't give you a separate 2
for stderr. It's great if you want to send stderr and stdout to the same pl=
ace
ala
>& and |&
but if you want to send them to different places, you have to do this
annoying nonsense with parens.=20
Then there's the magickal set path and get PATH. I prefer explicit.=20
Just annoyances from someone who debugs csh problems a lot.=20
Mike
--=20
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>=20
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessari=
ly a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could=
be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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