Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:34:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Agent Drek <drek@smashpow.net> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: James <effdefender@earthlink.net>, David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0207100033280.315-100000@bang.smashpow.net> In-Reply-To: <20020710030737.6F186BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:07:36 -0400 > From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> > To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net>, > David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>, > FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times? > > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:19 pm, James wrote: > | I'm still new, but: > | It's probably your shell. > | The C-Shell (csh) isn't good for programming scripts. > > Oh, poppycock. C-Shell is perfectly fine for programming scripts. > > It's just that you can't give ksh syntax to the csh. > > Really more a matter of what you are used to than anything else; that > square-bracket gibberish gives me the heeby-jeebies. > <snip> well if no-one is has posted the link yet: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ :) -- Derek Marshall Smash and Pow Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.smashpow.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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