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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:45:59 -0400
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Scripting languages (was: Re: Package system flaws?)
Message-ID:  <6143E151-9FF6-11D6-AA65-00039312C852@automagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpheinokuu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 12:03 , Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> writes:
>> well, I have a very low knowledge about zsh, but it has many features
>> (maybe too much, IMHO) such as associative arrays and builtin dynamic
>> loading...
>
> zsh is mostly a ksh clone.  It can also emulate sh, csh and bash (and
> even understands csh scripting syntax), but it's possibly not a good
> enough sh clone to replace ash.  At leat 3.x wasn't - I haven't
> checked the docs lately, so it's possible that 4.x is better.

Apple think zsh is good enough, fwtw:

[jabley@hyperion]% ls -ali /bin/sh /bin/zsh
6027431 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  449616 Jul 12 19:04 /bin/sh
6027442 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  449616 Jul 12 19:04 /bin/zsh
[jabley@hyperion]% diff /bin/sh /bin/zsh
[jabley@hyperion]% uname -a
Darwin hyperion.automagic.org 5.5 Darwin Kernel Version 5.5: Thu May 30 
14:51:26 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.42.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
[jabley@hyperion]%


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