Subject: was Re: vipw done. Now what?
To: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/10/1996 08:26:21
In message <m0tZpyF-000J8HC@europa.com>, Max Bell writes:
> 
> Try:
> 	echo I think the \"$SHELL\" is the best
> or
> 	set quote = \"
> 	echo "I think the $quote$SHELL$quote is the best"
> 

My point is that Tom Christensen brings up some valid issues in his
paper.  Basic operations that are straightforward in sh (such as escaping
dquotes within dquotes), you either can't do in csh or you have to go through
backhoops to do them.  Another example is splitting stdout and stderr.
In sh, you can do:

	prog 2> errs

with only stderr going to the file.  In csh, you have to kludge up something
like:

	(prog > /dev/tty) >& errs

which breaks under certain circumstances.