Re: Shell Games

From: Tom Huppi (thuppi_at_huppi.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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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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