Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:29:51 -0600 From: Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com> Subject: Re: running scripts within the current c-shell Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202231318590.5157-100000@pow.zing.org>
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Bob Batson wrote:
> At 10:35 PM -0600 2/22/02, Mike Coleman wrote:
>
> >For what it's worth, the equivalent under bash, which I *highly* recommend
> >over csh, would be
>
> [snip]
>
> How's bash better than tcsh?
Tom Christiansen (of Perl fame) has a bunch of reasons:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
My major complaint is the lack of redirection for stderr. I use (and
prefer) tcsh for command-line interaction, but stick with the Bourne shell
for scripting.