Re: C-shell login script

On 2006-06-11, s. keeling wrote:
Mark <notspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
John Hasler wrote:

Mark writes:
In what way is tcsh deprecated?

For scripting. It's fine for a login shell if you like that sort of
thing. Have you tried ksh?

No, if I ever changed from tcsh as an interactive command shell
I'd probably go to zsh

For scripting I always explicitly use bourne or perl

#!/bin/sh
or
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

My guess (from experience :-) is perl is more portable than sh. Hell,
it even runs on MS-Sh*tdows.

If you want a write-only language, perl is fine.

And zsh rocks!

But you cannot type portable scripts at the command line.

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