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Re: csh [was: Using tar saving Disk-space]



On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:36:13AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> How would this look for the csh?

I'm going to assume you're just plain unaware of this:

csh programming Considered Harmful

Somebody can probably provide a link to a copy of the essay. csh
scripts are a majorly Bad Idea[tm]. It has been obsolete for years,
and may it's fetid corpse never surface again. I suggest you try
bash script or perl or something...

-- 
Andrew Suffield <asuffield@users.sourceforge.net>
Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK

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