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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2811 comp.unix.solaris:21984 comp.unix.programmer:19629 comp.unix.misc:13691 comp.unix.aux:15235 comp.unix.bsd:14759 comp.unix.aix:43247 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!newshost!chrisb From: chrisb@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) 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: 29 Aug 94 14:44:19 Organization: Telecom Australia - CSSC Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <CHRISB.94Aug29144419@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au In-reply-to: brewer@hamlet.umd.edu's message of 25 Aug 1994 22:31:49 -0400 In article <33jk6l$6cq@hamlet.umd.edu> brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes: >>>>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. > >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. I'll be the first to back up BSD in many areas, but csh would not be one of them. The design flaws in csh are well documented. What is it that you can do in csh that you can't do in the bourne flavoured shells?