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 <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> 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 >> appeared]. > > Speaking as someone whose preferred interactive shell is a csh > derivative, I maintain exactly two csh-family scripts: my .cshrc and my > .login. > > Except for those two (which kinda have to be csh(ish) scripts), I use > sh for scripting. At least for my values of "better", sh is a > significantly better _programming_ language, for all that csh has > various things that make it a better _interactive_ language. > > I won't weigh in on either side of "replace csh with tcsh". I don't > like tcsh much, but the reasons amount to "it's not what my fingers are > used to"; I like stock csh even less, because it differs even more from > what my fingers are used to. > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
