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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
Date: 26 Aug 94 14:17:55 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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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> <33jk6l$6cq@hamlet.umd.edu>
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brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:
>In article <33gvms$56a@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>,
>Chris Bitmead <chrisb@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>Who would want to use tcsh when you could be using bash/zsh/ksh? Reality
>>check.
>Just about anyone who likes Berkeley flavors of Unix over ugly un-networked
>extremely limited and sold to the highest bidder, (NOVELL) System V. Sorry
>but I find most of System V less than enchanting. You still cannot do
>may things with ksh and bash that you can with tcsh except make functions.
Well... so much of it depends on what you learned on. Believe it or
not, my background is about 55% SysV, 15% SysIII (on a PDP-11 :) ) and
the rest BSD. No doubt about it, BSD extensions make UNIX much better,
but I like the core of SysV better... don't know why, just do.
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