> Any good reason to not update /bin/csh to tcsh as default csh like FreeBSD
> and Dragonfly did?
I use csh/tcsh interactively (not for sripts), and I am heavily in
love with and dependent on csh's !-style history feature. None of
the other shells in base provide that. I pick !-history over
"lin
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 03:06:41PM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> There's a definite size difference between csh and tcsh,
> approximately 2x -- this is on NetBSD/amd64 9.x, and I include
> /bin/sh for comparison:
>
> $ ls -lf /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh /bin/csh /bin/sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 408688 J
> Does csh even exist anymore?
You're trolling?
The mere fact that it exists in NetBSD to the present day is
perhaps enough to claim "yes", and we have the version history
back to the 4.4lite version in our source archive.
> I thought tcsh replaced csh and is now the main development
> branch of
Does csh even exist anymore? I thought tcsh replaced csh and is now the main
development branch of it.
> On 21. Oct 2022, at 15.15, Mouse wrote:
>
>> The only time it ever made any sense at all to use csh for scripts
>> was in the brief period between [when csh appeared] and [when sh
>> appeare
> The only time it ever made any sense at all to use csh for scripts
> was in the brief period between [when csh appeared] and [when sh
> appeared].
Speaking as someone whose preferred interactive shell is a csh
derivative, I maintain exactly two csh-family scripts: my .cshrc and my
.login.
Excep
> About the only argument for retaining csh that makes zero
> sense is to retain it for scripts.
I guess it's a matter of (varying) taste. I used to prefer csh at some time,
and that was definetely after V7 appeared.
Also, there are csh scripts out there. Anyone fully converted metamail
to sh?
Date:Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:37:07 +0200
From:Anders Magnusson
Message-ID:
| Hm, I do not think it sound like a good idea to remove csh, it is quite
| much in use for scripting
Really??
The only time it ever made any sense at all to use csh for
scripts was in the
Den 2022-10-21 kl. 11:07, skrev Martin Husemann:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:51:14AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:39:45AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
[csh]
Or just remove it...
It would be a bad joke for anyone that has set it as root shell.
Oh, I did not mean to
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:51:14AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:39:45AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> [csh]
> > Or just remove it...
>
> It would be a bad joke for anyone that has set it as root shell.
Oh, I did not mean to suggest marking it as "obsolete" and aut
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:39:45AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
[csh]
> Or just remove it...
It would be a bad joke for anyone that has set it as root shell.
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