Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:09:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: C shell scripts (was: Re: which(1), rewritten in C?) Message-ID: <200003030909.KAA72276@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20000303005651.A62723@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Mar 3, 2000 00:56:51 am"
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Hi all! > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote: > > While this may sound crazy, I was tired of 'which' taking a long > > time to complete on my 486 dx4/100 when it was under extereme > > pressure, so I rewrote it in C :) > > > > I don't think that it is worthwhile replacing this perl script > > with one written in C, but if anyone is interested... > > Why in the world isn't ``which'' written as a csh shell script?? Most probably because C shell scripts should be avoided at any cost. See: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Regards, Patrick -- WEB Internet Services Systemhaus GmbH Scheffelstr. 17a 76135 Karlsruhe phone +49 721 9109 0 fax +49 721 9109 100 http://www.punkt.de/ Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director email hausen@punkt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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