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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:34:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Agent Drek <drek@smashpow.net>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        James <effdefender@earthlink.net>, David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I repeat a command N times?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0207100033280.315-100000@bang.smashpow.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020710030737.6F186BA05@i8k.babbleon.org>

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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:07:36 -0400
> From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
> To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net>,
>      David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>,
>      FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: How do I repeat a command N times?
>
> On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:19 pm, James wrote:
> | I'm still new, but:
> | It's probably your shell.
> | The C-Shell (csh) isn't good for programming scripts.
>
> Oh, poppycock.  C-Shell is perfectly fine for programming scripts.
>
> It's just that you can't give ksh syntax to the csh.
>
> Really more a matter of what you are used to than anything else; that
> square-bracket gibberish gives me the heeby-jeebies.
>

<snip>

well if no-one is has posted the link yet:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

:)

--
   Derek Marshall

Smash and Pow Inc > 'digital plumber'
http://www.smashpow.net


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