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- From: vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno
- Subject: Re: Shells
- Message-ID: <C035Cr.IxM@CAM.ORG>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:43:38 GMT
- References: <BzzEGz.73G@CAM.ORG> <75975@apple.apple.COM>
- Organization: Champlain Regional College, St-Lambert QC CANADA
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- unknown@Apple.COM (Matt Ackeret) writes:
-
- >In article <BzzEGz.73G@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
- >>Anyone use zsh? It's a really excellent shell. But it's huge and I don't
-
- >cshell does that too, at least the versions I've used. (Yes I know it's
- >not your main point.. just pointing out that it's not a zsh-specific
- >thing. I've never heard of zsh actually)
-
- I think it just got out of beta. It seemed a LOT better than ksh, which is the
- default on this UNIX machine, so I started using it. I've never used csh, so I
- can't compare.
-
- >sz `find /tmp -user unknown -print` is a good example that I use fairly
- >often, especially when my files don't all end in *SHK (in which case I'd just
- >do "sz *SHK" of course).
-
- >>Also, history substitutions. If, for example, you want to add an alias to
- >>your system, you do this.
- >>alias stuff otherstuff
- >>echo !1 >>~/gshrc - echo the previous line to the file.
- >>!1 means first line in the history, !2, the second, and so on.
-
- > Isn't that backwards? Aren't the history lines in ascending order
- >chronologically?
-
- You could very well be right... I don't use it enough to remember which way it
- goes.
-
- >>gsh also needs a way to run a series of proceses in the background, but
- >>sequentially.
- >>( process1 ; process2 ; process3 ) &
- >>run them one after the other.
-
- >ooh, never heard of that.. Sounds interesting.
-
- The simplest use of that is a background timer (wake up in two minutes...)
-
- (sleep 120;echo \\007)&
-
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- | Phillip Vandry | Vandry@Cam.Org | Merry Christmas II you! |
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- >unknown@apple.com Apple II Forever
- >unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu These opinions are mine--hell, I'm 'just' a contractor.
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