From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 22:40:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F2C37B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA85825 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:23:10 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f1Q6dvu02299 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:39:57 +0300 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:39:57 +0300 From: Igor Robul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Which programming shell, sh or csh? Message-ID: <20010226093957.A1988@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010223153105.A17466@tethys.valhalla.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20010223153105.A17466@tethys.valhalla.net>; from mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:31:05PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:31:05PM +0000, Mark Drayton wrote: > > I am writing some small scripts for our users to help them interact > > with cvs. I have looked at using either sh or csh, but I cannot find > > any information as to why I would choose one over the other. > > I've never used csh myself, but I've read several documents saying it > shouldn't be used. See Tom Christiansen's article for more info: Most of _my own_ scripts are written in csh. But generally, sh is better for programming than csh. -- Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message