[NCLUG] Shells and stuff...

[J. Paul Reed]

On 24 Jun 2003 at 19:35:59, Jeff moved bits on my disk to say:

> So, I've been a bash user since I started messing around with *nix in
> '93.  Lately, I've started wondering what benefit I might get with other
> shells.  I've read some opinions on the web, but nothing really stands
> out as better than the rest.  WHat are your opinions?  What shell(s) do
> you use and why?

Yeah, yeah, this is old and bait-worthy, but I thought I'd point out: I
really wanted to switch over to using tcsh, but I couldn't when I asked the
simple question "How do you redirct STDERR to one place and STDOUT to
another in tcsh, a la foo-prog > /tmp/output 2> /tmp/err" and the answer
I got was "You can't."

Maybe this is wrong, or has changed, but that's why I didn't switch to
tcsh, even though it's got some features that I think I'd like.

Later,
Paul
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