http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/ Some notes regarding this and that en Serendipity 1.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:24:40 GMT http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/ 100 21 http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/13-The-csh-madness.html Computers http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/13-The-csh-madness.html#comments http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/wfwcomment.php?cid=13 0 http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=13 nospam@example.com (Andreas Fester) I have been aware of it for a long time. But, from time to time, you need to make up your mind about it: the csh unix shell simply sucks. I noticed this again today when I tried to execute a simple 'while'-loop on the shell within one line, something like '% while ( true ) ; doSomething ; end'. This is simply not possible with [t]csh: it needs a line feed after the while statement. More reasons why not to use [t]csh can be found at <a href="http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~fosler/csh-from-hell/csh-from-hell.html">csh programming considered harmful</a> and <a href="http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt">Top Ten Reasons not to use the C shell</a>. The most obvious for me is: it does not support functions or procedures. So, just do not use it. Use a shell like sh, bash, ksh, zsh. For more complex scripts, use a modern scripting language like <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a> or <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en">Ruby</a>. Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:57:00 +0200 http://littletux.homelinux.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/13-guid.html