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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does this shell program run under csh????
Message-ID: <2689@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jun-87 17:29:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 20 17:29:49 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 11:56:52 EDT
References: <206@stc-auts.UUCP> <7124@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <206@stc-auts.UUCP> by kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel):
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| I will just barely refrain from saying what I think about
| a command language which uses comments as control structures.
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Which presumably includes '#n' comments in System V sed?  (Now THAT'S a
useless change.  Under BSD I can see it, as you can't do a "#! sed -n -f".
But System V doesn't have #!, so why can't you just say sed -n -f???)

++Brandon
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