Justin Wells wrote: > If you're not careful here you're going to start an enormous flame war, > with religion on all sides.
Only if people read only the subject of the message, as you appear to have done. He was asking a very specific question, which has only one answer. It's not a religious thing. > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:24:48PM +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote: > > Am I missing something or is bash really not capable of doing that? > > PS: We don't have to argue which shell is better for programming. > > I know it's not tcsh. :-) And yes Andy, bash cannot do that, though zsh can. I migrated from tcsh to zsh; it's a pretty easy migration. zsh is very similar to bash, but it has extra features like tab completion and it also has special tcsh-style features that can be enabled to ease the transition from tcsh (over the years, I turned them all off..). -- see shy jo
