Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:05:41 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Michael Madden <madden@cmsrtp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programming with Bourne or C shell Message-ID: <20050101110541.25e514e3@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <20050101032022.GA1890@cmsrtp.com> References: <20050101032022.GA1890@cmsrtp.com>
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:20:22 -0600 Michael Madden <madden@cmsrtp.com> wrote: > I have most of my interactive shell experience using bash on Linux > and shell programing on Unix-like systems with Bourne shell. Since > FreeBSD's default shell is csh/tcsh, I was wondering if it's still > considered an atrocity to develop shell scripts with C shell: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > Are most FreeBSD users still using csh or tcsh has their interactive > shell and sh for programming? I think it would be nice to use the > same interactive and programming shell for consistency. Unless you want something with interactive features and want something in the base, I really don't see much of a reason to choose tcsh. It can make a nice tuner control script using hotkeys and ect, but not much else. Tcsh if you ever try scripting in it will become a PITA with the lack of functions and a few other things.
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