problem with sed command and csh

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Jun 19 07:54:10 UTC 2007


On 2007-06-18 12:28, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass at teledomenet.gr> wrote:
> Last but not least, do you have use csh?  It's not recommend for
> scripting.

This must be the most sensible thing I've read in the entire thread.

Quoting rules aside, tcsh is a nice interactive shell, but there are far
too many annoyances in the expansion rules, and differences between what
one has to type in an interactive shell prompt and in a script.

If you have a choice, please use /bin/sh, bash or ksh :-)




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