Re: rm - Arguments too long

From: K Stahl (ktsahl_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/03 

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:43:03 GMT

Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
>
> K Stahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
> > >
> > > K Stahl <ktsahl@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > > I once had someone who had recently graduated from college
> > > > come to me and ask that I set csh as their default shell on
> > > > a Solaris machine. The gist of my response was that if they
> > > > were going to work on the Unix machines in my lab they would
> > > > learn to use Korn shell or they could limit their work to
> > > > PCs.
> > >
> > > I consider this too harsh. For example, I use csh (or rather tcsh) as my
> > > login shell, but I write all my shell scripts in [k]sh. I am sure a lot of
> > > other people do the same.
> >
> > Yes, sometimes I do express things a bit harshly.
> >
> > Think about this though. What one person, who was once one
> > of the major driving forces behind both BSD Unix and csh is
> > now working for a company which has basically set the
> > standard for SVR4 Posix implementation of Unix and the Korn
> > shell?
> >
> > Doesn't that suggest something?
>
> Don't know. Since Ken Thompson, Bob Pike and others from Bell Labs are now
> working on Plan 9, shall we all abandon (sp?) UNIX and embrace Plan 9
> instead?
>
> Maybe the person "who was once one of the major driving forces behind both
> BSD Unix and csh" got bored by it? :-)
>
> Bye, Dragan
>
> --
> Dragan Cvetkovic,
>
> To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouw

Yes, if it is better. Though I don't expect that to happen
in the near term.

I'd hardly think that Bill Joy has become bored. Since Sun
fully embraced Posix standards he hasn't had to get his
meals in too many soup kitchens.

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