From: Aaron Schneider <notstop@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: length in gawk returns wrong value
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP112B93E985D3C0C52CAC827CED90@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50083DA9.2030104@redhat.com>
On 19/07/2012 19:02, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> Why bother? csh syntax is non-standard, and in my opinion, it is ugly
> (others around here disagree, or tcsh would have died long ago, but
> that's a different story - it's mostly people that were on a system that
> picked csh as its default shell long before standardization picked
> Bourne over csh syntax).
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
>
Ok, I understand that you don't have to execute both lang.sh or
lang.csh; they are executed depending on the shell you have, there is no
need to run both, in fact they do the same. Default shell will suffice
and is better for porting scripts.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 8:50 Ralf
2012-07-19 9:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-19 11:27 ` Ralf
2012-07-19 11:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-19 12:36 ` Csaba Raduly
2012-07-19 13:58 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-19 14:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-07-19 16:17 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-19 16:46 ` Cliff Hones
2012-07-19 16:54 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-19 17:02 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-19 17:15 ` Aaron Schneider [this message]
2012-07-20 14:42 ` Reini Urban
2012-07-19 17:03 ` Cliff Hones
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