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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Shell Scripts vs. C programs
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 15:17:51 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Sender: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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- Keywords: shell script, C
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- steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
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- >program. Besides, there are still many systems that do not have ksh,
- >unfortunately, I have to use them all the time. Even on Sun's, ksh is
- >a "local" program and is not always there.
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- There is a PD port of ksh, dunno how perfect it is.
- For this reason I've standardised on bash, but scripts are all !/bin/sh
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- Hopefully something like bash will proliferate far and wide, and then
- it'll be a good idea writing !/usr/bin/bash.
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- -ans.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
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