Csh or Bsh

max_linuxquesti · 12-09-2002, 08:28 PM

I prefer Csh than Bsh. But recently I heard that Csh
is not a good choice for scripting. I wonder why

subcommandante · 12-10-2002, 09:19 PM

An informative explanation as to why Csh can be so frustrating.

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

Enjoy.

vishal_iet · 12-16-2002, 06:13 AM

thanks it was a nice explanation

llama_meme · 12-16-2002, 06:41 AM

Some of the worst issues described in that link are now fixed (in FreeBSD's tcsh at least) - I couldn't make the shell coredump with any of the commands given.

The stuff about redirection, aliases, etc. still seems to apply, though.

Alex

cyent · 12-26-2002, 01:17 PM

In a sense it is a battle between midgets. csh || bash? Answer: Who cares, just don't make your life so difficult!

Scripting language design has moved on to far better things. Whether you use Perl or Python or Ruby, it matters not. Perl is powerful but a bit ugly. Python is clean and neat. Ruby is clean and powerful.

My personal favourite having programmed in the traditional scripting languages and perl and python is ruby. Quite the best way to go...
http://www.ruby-lang.org
for more details.