Andres Perera zoho.com> writes:
> > Nowadays all shells supports $() so I advise you to use it :).
>
> no, not all shells support $()
They do, it’s mandated by POSIX. There’s no reason to support the
accidentally non-combining accent gravis (so-called “backtick”¹)
any more, unless you specifica
Gary Kline thought.org> writes:
> For instance, say that my xterm/console/"Konsole" is 80x53 lines.
> My text file is around 200 lines long and I want to use more or less
> or some GUI pager to display only 15 lines at one time. Tapping the
> space bar would display another 15 lines and so on u
Andres Perera zoho.com> writes:
> "mandated by posix" and reality usually aren't in sync, as i'm sure you know
by
In this case, closely enough.
> now since you pointed out solaris
It’s just /bin/sh on long outdated versions (newer ones, both
from Horracle and not, have AT&T ksh93 there instea
Rob Farmer predatorlabs.net> writes:
> Have you used the default FreeBSD shell (tcsh) recently?
tcsh is not a shell. Well, it’s an interactive command line
interpreter, not a bad one compared to what else is offered
at that, but…
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
bye,
//mirab
Rob Farmer dixit:
>(New) people will still copy and paste commands into an interactive
>tcsh
That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems
did the sensible thing ages ago ☺
Even then, I tend to disagree here. There’s the common use of
‘% ’ and ‘$ ’ (and ‘# ’ but we use sudo(8)
Chad Perrin apotheon.com> writes:
> > That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems
> > did the sensible thing ages ago ☺
>
> What exactly is "the sensible thing"?
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/user/
user.c.diff?r1=1.116&r2=1.117&only_with_tag=MAIN
http://
Chad Perrin apotheon.com> writes:
> 1. You think some measure of popularity of a decision makes it correct.
No.
> 2. You don't like (t)csh.
No. I just point out it’s not a suitable scripting shell.
> 3. You think your opinions are so self-evident that everybody will just
> immediately underst
Rob Farmer predatorlabs.net> writes:
> LOL - how hypocritical. This thread was four days dead then suddenly
> two people show up and start pushing this mksh shell, which seems to
Sorry for reviving again, but I only show up as I have an “alert” set
to mksh to know when it’s being discussed alrea
