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Re: Portable shell scripts



On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:24:04AM +0800, csj wrote:
> I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible.  So
> "#!/bin/tcsh".

Wow. You're mad. Sorry :) The C shell is too broken for serious
scripting.

> But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one set of scripts for
> bash and another for tcsh.

I don't understand. Why would you need to write two sets of scripts?

> My main problem is handling the variables. Is there a shell-portable
> way to specify variables?

Not if you want them exported to subprocesses, no.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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