RE: for years I have been using korn shell

The few bash scripts I've done would work the same if they were headed with "#!/bin/ksh". If I need to get complex, I typically pop off a pearl of a Perl.

Whoops...as I check on my scripts at home I see they're all headed with "#!/bin/sh". Oh well. :)

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 5:54 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: for years I have been using korn shell
>
>
> Rich
> So do you use bash for interactive or to write scripts?
> The trap many
> fell into (and apparently still fall into) is that cshell is
> excellent for
> interactive work, but isn't so great for scripting. That is
> the power of
> korn, a friendly interactive face and a powerful scripting
> capability. I'm
> just asking because I have a feeling I'll wind up on Linux some day.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> For Linux, I use bash. For Unix (HP/Sun) accounts, I use
> Korn, where bash
> typically isn't available. I like either, but am tending to
> like bash more
> for the non-vi command line editing that uses cursor keys
> (I've been told
> that this is "set -o emacs" in Korn, but it shore don't work
> like that on
> Korn-88).
>
> For one 3rd party install, I use csh because that's what they
> require. And
> because of they way they have it setup, if I'm in Korn and
> execute their
> setup, it won't work. I have to change to csh first, then
> execute their
> setup. Just poorly written, IMHO.
>
> My $.02,
> Rich

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