[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sun Apr 21 14:05:46 CDT 2002


[ On Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 14:33:10 (-0400), Sridhar the POWERful wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
>
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > > > I hate csh also.  I've used it for a long time.  I find scripts easier
> > > > to write in it than in bash though.
> > >
> > > Ewwww!!!
> > >
> > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
> >
> > Perhaps I should have been more specific about what I meant by
> > scripts.  I meant short things that are maybe 10 lines long on rare
> > occasions, more likely 4-5.
> 
> Also, some of the stuff that that faq says can't be done in csh, actually
> can.

not by anyone who still has their sanity!  ;-)

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