Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:53:59 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shells confusion Message-ID: <20020126105359.GA1005@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020126102843.GA8522@sysadm.stc> References: <20020126020430.P175-100000@BLAST> <20020126035658.GC1290@raggedclown.net> <20020126070114.C8FD93FE5@i8k.babbleon.org> <20020126091545.GA1022@raggedclown.net> <20020126102843.GA8522@sysadm.stc>
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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
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