Sending Tcsh to packages/ports ...

Mayuresh Kathe mayuresh at kathe.in
Fri Mar 29 02:06:58 UTC 2019


Couldn't you have simply done;
ls -lh *csh
instead?
Also you can see they are the same binary.

Doesn't matter that it is small, why have stray stuff lying around?


On 2019-03-29 07:33 AM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> KUDZU at HEARST:/BIN 130> ll -i | grep csh
> 
> 198147 -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  427888 Jun 22  2018 csh*
> 
> 198147 -r-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  427888 Jun 22  2018 tcsh*
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 6:59 PM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in>
> wrote:
> 
>> Since Tcsh is usually imported, why not send it to packages/ports
>> collection?
>> I agree that "csh" is an historically important artifact, but do we
>> need
>> to still rely on that?
>> I have been using "csh" ever since I started using FreeBSD, liked
>> it,
>> but it doesn't feel light like plain old "sh" nor is as feature-full
>> as
>> "bash". To top that, the installer asks me to choose between "csh"
>> and
>> "tcsh" in-spite of being the same binary.
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