Re: csh question: foreach

From: Colin B. (cbigam_at_somewhereelse.nucleus.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:35:01 GMT

In comp.unix.solaris Roger Marquis <not-for-mail@roble.com> wrote:
> Coy Hile <hile@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
>>Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>> Why would somebody like to use csh as login shell?
>>
>>I am a reformed tcsh user. Now I use ksh. I actually feel bad for our
>>users here; their default shell is tcsh.
>
> Point of clarification, csh != tcsh.
>
> Out of curiosity, what compelling command line features
> does ksh offer that bash and tcsh don't?

ksh vs. bash (i.e. the "sh-like shells")
ksh is /bin/sh compatible. bash isn't. End of story.

ksh vs. (t)csh
ksh has all of the scripting abilities I need, has fantastic command-line
editing, and uses an extended set of /bin/sh syntax. csh doesn't offer me
anything more than that, so there's no compelling reason to (re)learn a
substantially different syntax.

Maybe if I were a professional programmer I'd appreciate the C-like syntax
on the command line, but from an admin point of view, it doesn't make much
sense.

Colin

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