running scripts within the current c-shell

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Sat Feb 23 19:29:51 CST 2002


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Bob Batson wrote:

> At 10:35 PM -0600 2/22/02, Mike Coleman wrote:
> 
> >For what it's worth, the equivalent under bash, which I *highly* recommend
> >over csh, would be
> 
> [snip]
> 
> How's bash better than tcsh?

Tom Christiansen (of Perl fame) has a bunch of reasons:

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

My major complaint is the lack of redirection for stderr.  I use (and
prefer) tcsh for command-line interaction, but stick with the Bourne shell
for scripting.




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