From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 16:13:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFBE37BBD5 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:13:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA96231; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:13:55 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Is the C-shell (csh) a bad shell? Message-ID: <20000718161355.B96043@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000718175345.A95605@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:53:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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