Re: A bit of Linux advice yet again??

From: Noons <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam>
Date: 02 Feb 2003 10:00:40 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns9316D357AE01Emineminemine@210.49.20.254>

Tim X <timx_at_spamto.devnul.com> wrote in news:87smv744xl.fsf_at_tiger.rapttech.com.au and I quote:

> corenv (For csh shells). One thing I've never understood is why Oracle
> makes such extensive use of csh and even tcsh for shell scripts - even
> 13 years ago when I first started unix, the rule of thumb was to only
> ever use csh/tcsh as an interactive shell and stick to sh for all
> scripts (or perhaps ksh).

Yes, very much the same here. Never understood why one would bother with the csh. Even for interactive: most of the stuff it did over and above sh is readily available in ksh. And ksh is vanilla to make compatible with any bourne scripts.

I guess it must have been one of those old "Berkeley vs AT&T" fights: csh seemed to be the thing for Berkeley people.

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Nuno Souto
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