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- From: eric@animus.Corp.Sun.COM (Eric arnold)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Shell types (May be FAQ)
- Message-ID: <lbco9bINNg43@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:18:19 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.170347.5947@muppet.bt.co.uk>
- Reply-To: eric@animus.Corp.Sun.COM
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- In article 5947@muppet.bt.co.uk, carlj@muppet.bt.co.uk (Carl Johnson) writes:
- >
- >In article laqdhjINN34i@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM, Eric.Arnold@Sun.COM (Eric arnold) writes:
- >=I don't know about an FAQ posting, but I'll spout my oppinion. After
- >=trying all of those above, I settled on the "zsh". I was looking for:
- >
- ><Lots of nice things about zsh>
- >
- >I dont want to start a flame war here but this sounds very similar to tcsh,
- >why did you choose zsh over it in particular?
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- Primarily because "zsh" uses the Bourne shell language, which is much
- better, IMHO+=(others && /etc/*). "tcsh" is nice, and I almost
- stayed with it, but it uses the evil "csh" syntax (quoting hell, lame
- io redirection, etc.).
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- -Eric
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