C shell scripts (was: Re: which(1), rewritten in C?)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all!

> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote:
> > While this may sound crazy, I was tired of 'which' taking a long
> > time to complete on my 486 dx4/100 when it was under extereme
> > pressure, so I rewrote it in C :)
> > 
> > I don't think that it is worthwhile replacing this perl script
> > with one written in C, but if anyone is interested...
> 
> Why in the world isn't ``which'' written as a csh shell script??

Most probably because C shell scripts should be avoided at any
cost.

See: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Regards,
Patrick
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