Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!npirs!ramsey From: ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: echo question Message-ID: <1991Mar8.163037.18947@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> Date: 8 Mar 91 16:30:37 GMT References: <1991Mar08.142000.27880@convex.com> Organization: The National Pesticide Information Retrieval System, Purdue University Lines: 15 From article <1991Mar08.142000.27880@convex.com>, by tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen): > From the keyboard of simonl@bnr.ca (Simon-Cheuk Leung): > : > : I have a question on C-shell, if I do the following, > ... > What's not ok is that you use the csh, which is a royal pain the neck, and > you shouldn't be using it for didly squat. I know "should" is a strong > word that we "shouldn't" use, but so be it. Bill Joy has a plane of hell > reserved all to himself because of the csh. Use a real shell, or perl, but > break yourself of the csh sickness before it becomes terminal. Which shell, then? -Ed