Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:13:55 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000718161355.B96043@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:53:45PM -0500 References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:53:45PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote: > I'd like to learn a shell fairly well and chose csh because it's in the base > FreeBSD system (a little graybeard character) and I found good documentation > on it written by William Joy. But I've read some things that it's a "bad" > shell. The thing that's burned two of my cow-orkers in the last week is the inability to properly redirect stderr without redirecting stdout. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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