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- From: Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Date: 17 Jul 92 19:55 MDT
- Subject: Re: Is it all digits?
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- Nf-From: delab.sintef.no!Harald.Eikrem Jul 17 19:55:00 1992
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- I was going:
- ! >Oh please Tom, spare him of that crap of yours.
- ! >
- ! >To Farid, of course, if you insist on doing these things in c-shell, you
- ! >will have to learn a couple of c-shell ways of thinking, which includes
- ! >shell globbing expressions in if and while statements, plus the necessity
- ! >to quote variables, like:
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- then enter dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell):
- ! To Farid, of course, if you insist on doing these things in c-shell, you
- ! will have to learn a couple of c-shell ways of thinking, which includes
- ! not using the c-shell to write shell scripts.
- !
- ! find / -name 'csh' -print | xargs rm -rf
- ! echo Machine now disinfected.
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- Matthew, you're a bigger fart than I ever thought. :)
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- Mind you, I'm not particularly fond of csh programming.....
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- ~~harald E.
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