Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: A bit of Linux advice yet again?? From: Noons References: <0FK_9.38003$jM5.96462@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <3e3be271$0$232$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <%kV_9.38366$jM5.97308@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> <87smv744xl.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> Organization: Completely disorganized, but still kicking! Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/L5 Date: 02 Feb 2003 10:00:40 GMT Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.28.171.43 X-Trace: 1044180040 27993 211.28.171.43 Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:174502 X-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 03:04:31 MST (news.easynews.com) Tim X wrote in news:87smv744xl.fsf@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. -- Cheers Nuno Souto nsouto@optusnet.com.au.nospam