On 2019-06-17 09:11, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2019-06-17 07:13, Csaba Raduly wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 2:12 PM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
Just wondering... Does anyone still uses tcsh? That was my favorite shell
before bash.
There are always pockets of resistance, hiding out in the mountains
(-: server rooms, etc :-)
Some of us were lured to csh on SunOS by mentions of C-like features (still
looking for those) and used tcsh on other systems, before coming to our senses
when POSIX standardized based on Bourne/Korn shell features, and appreciating
the kitchen sink inclusive implementation of interactive shell features provided
by bash.
Some of us were lured to csh on BSD 4.2 because sh was primitive as all
get-out -- no functions, no aliases; the only thing it had going for it was
better signal trapping. Where I was, a few students implemented 'dsh', a
follow-on to 'csh', which had ESC-based pathname, user, ~user, and envariable
expansion (ran in cbrk mode), and a few other things (and some really goofy
error messages). I inherited it and immediately declared it dead upon the
arrival on scene by tcsh, which I then abandoned once I discovered bash, since
I wanted to have a CLI which resembled my primary prototyping language.
[ksh, on the other hand, is welcome to fall off the face of the earth at any
unannounced moment...]
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