From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 21:24:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56F91065672 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632838FC12 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb31 with SMTP id 31so1327099wwb.31 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=predatorlabs.net; s=google; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ef6KOrT/h+jxU/3H4Rk9LVhAHLd0/8L131cC/GOYy7A=; b=F9rlHZAzNT1etebm86DGAHr6sR68MjU9q1eNAGhLkwRRBezuXjP4bqZyiRbU1WRxUM 7qGgiY1s7tWx2RRhsakJZuS0eixKwESpnw+yLT/CDUyUWb0OQYid0alqElv99XpFT7zT 2rhLlrtP4she4CtjcdYCsQw+eun1rYjyd5Qjw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=predatorlabs.net; s=google; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VetCSMIp7Zx8fsmX1I5f2I9JKq0WEkIA5A6OuH48hhbHVECfPlarrkztEKkuQRcJGj Rd0iTCTy0Vwmn5EckcB+G3OFg1So3pCitqbjIuERgOYg9MwlxelD6tzEVaiy6XoyyLGI CeNFK7pYgpKhxzdIQywG4hnAl70kp+0hr4x2E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.35.82 with SMTP id t60mr6326093wea.46.1298582677618; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.157.139 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:37 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.133.23] In-Reply-To: References: <4D61599E.4040008@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:24:37 -0800 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: Thorsten Glaser Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backtick versus $() X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:24:49 -0000 On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Rob Farmer predatorlabs.net> writes: > >> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently? > > tcsh is not a shell. Well, it=92s an interactive command line > interpreter, not a bad one compared to what else is offered > at that, but=85 > (New) people will still copy and paste commands into an interactive tcsh, so it is a good idea to be compatible when posting stuff to the mailing lists, etc. if possible. There was something on the ports@ list a while back, about PRs for new ports, where this came up. > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > I've read it before. Who hasn't? And I find it unconvincing, since it is just a list of shortcomings. If those shortcomings don't affect me, why do I care? -- Rob Farmer