Subject: Re: BSD == NIH
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: current-users
Date: 03/16/1999 19:37:37
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:35:08AM -0600, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> In message <199903161719.JAA05607@Cup.DSG.Stanford.EDU>, Jonathan Stone writes:
> >Really? i'm at least as surprised to hear so many people depending on
> >the abortion that is sh.  As a scripting language, it has csh beat,
> >but the UI?
> 
> I like it a lot.  Of course, I use ksh.
> 
> I'm a big fan of command line *editing*, not just history, and I like
> the POSIX-sh style.
> 
> I also find ${foo%bar} et al. easier to remember than the csh equivalents,
> and more flexible.
> 
> And, of course, if you aren't using your command shell as a scripting
> language, you're missing half the fun.
> 
> 	$ for i in ...

% foreach i (...)