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Re: bash questions
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: bash questions
- From: raf at comdyn dot com dot au (raf)
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:44:13 +1100
>> I installed gnu-win32 simply to run some csh scripts that I had on a
>> Solaris box. In the process of converting this script to bash I have
>> encountered the following problems...
>Bash is not the right tool for executing csh scripts. Bash is MUCH
>more like Bourne shell (sh) than C-Shell. Bash even has a
>Bourne-shell mode (use the -posix invocation arg, which basically
>takes away some of the behaviors that only bash offers, but not all of
>them, unfortunately) but it has no C-Shell mode. Your problems are
>mostly because your csh scripts are just basically incompatible with
>Bourne sh, so they're also incompatible with bash. You need a csh,
>unless you want to rewrite the scripts in a more Bourne-like fashion.
>Gnu does have a csh interpreter, but I don't know whether it's
>available under NT. I suspect not; I don't have one, anyway. And csh
>is kind of lame, compared to bash, which is kind of magnificent. It's
>awful to switch from csh to bash, but you'll never go back, that's for
>sure.
didn't sergey or someone port tcsh?
raf
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