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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2803 comp.unix.solaris:21948 comp.unix.programmer:19608 comp.unix.misc:13678 comp.unix.aux:15220 comp.unix.bsd:14747 comp.unix.aix:43228 Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!josef!avalon!lytras From: lytras@avalon.unizh.ch (Apostolos Lytras) Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Message-ID: <1994Aug28.120942.3613@ifi.unizh.ch> Sender: news@ifi.unizh.ch (USENET News Admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: avalon Organization: Informatik Club d. Universitaet, Zuerich References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33e3kt$i1i@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <33eevl$eja@hamlet.umd.edu> <33gvms$56a@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 12:09:42 GMT Lines: 19 Chris Bitmead replied to Peter Brewer who replied to Chris Bitmead who replied to Paul A. Thompson... > > > I don't know how to do this in csh, but who would want to use csh anyway? > > If its tcsh you'd be surprised. That's like asking who would want to use > > emacs when they have vi. Reality check. > Who would want to use tcsh when you could be using bash/zsh/ksh? Reality > check. This thread could go on for ever... but, really: who would want to change from a shell he or she is comfortable and productive with to something else? People like what they know... Reality check. - Apostolos -- # Apostolos Lytras, Rue du Jura 9, CH-1023 Crissier # Internet: lytras@avalon.unizh.ch # "Wenn ein Mann bei der Entdeckung, dass er ein Hahnrei ist, die Lektuere # eines guten Buches unterbricht, so ist er wert, es zu sein." - H. Soderberg