Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:30:16 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi <thuppi@huppi.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell Games Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0412310001040.39721@nuumen.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <F2007F7E-5AD6-11D9-BAFF-000D932D61F0@ohko.org> References: <49B5BEF2.7CCF22F4.0F75C5EC@netscape.net> <1104458982.622.3.camel@chaucer> <F2007F7E-5AD6-11D9-BAFF-000D932D61F0@ohko.org>
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Nicolas Mackintosh wrote:
<snip>
> I've always looked at the shell as a very personal thing. Some will
> prefer Bash, others will want to play with something completely
> different. It's a bit like having a favorite hammer... Only a lot more
> elegant!
Heh...you have not seen my work then :)
My two cents, though: I started out in a multi-platform
environment and thus choose Bourne Shell for scripting (and still
had to learn the sed, awk, etc differences since most shells are
pretty useless alone.) As time goes by, I suspect it's less of an
issue even for the few folks who find themselves in such a
position. I will mention, though, that knowing Bourne Shell and
portability issues can come in handy for working with autoconf,
and that is likely a more common demand these days.
FWIW, I've always used 'tcsh' interactively, but almost switched a
while back out of disgust at not being able to figure out how to
get a one-line foreach/{do_something}/end loop (which would allow
me to re-run a complex command easily.)
Thanks,
- Tom
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