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- From: ln_smr@pki-nbg.philips.de (Stephen Riehm)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: csh to ksh
- Message-ID: <ln_smr.727606531@pki-nbg.philips.de>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 08:55:31 GMT
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- solomon@mathcs.emory.edu (Michael Solomon) writes:
-
- >I am about to convert a rather sophisticated csh application into ksh syntax. Does
- >anyone know of any guides, tips or (dare I ask) conversion software? I would
- >greatly appreciate any assistance.
-
- Can't say I know of any such software, but one piece of advice I can
- give is: "if it aint broke, don't fix it!" From my experience, such
- conversions are possible, once you know the equivalent command
- structures etc, but every time I have attempted this sort of thing,
- I spend a day converting, and three days (or more) finding bugs, often
- subtle ones. If the effort is worth it, go ahead. Perhaps try writing
- similar scripts from scratch to see how you would go about it in ksh
- before trying to convert your csh script.
-
- catchya
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