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Re: BASH scripting question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Maciag)
Tue Oct 27 17:41:57 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:41:48 -0500
From: Ted Maciag <tsm@wwnet.net>
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I agree, with a twist.
Korn is great and can be loaded every where you want it to be. Good Luck!
-ted
John H Darrah wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> > On 24 Oct 1998, in message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9810231409110.5138-100000@mallard.itep.ru>
> >
> > Alexei Nefediev <nefediev@heron.itep.ru> wrote:
> >
> > > what should I do to learn my own script to
> > > understand switches and to report about its
> > > usage when started without arguments?
> >
> > Step 1: Never write for "bash" (or the other
> > dialects like zsh ksh etc) if you can
> > write for plain vanilla Bourne shell (sh).
> >
>
> WRONG!! This is just another one of these
> religious statements that confuse many newcomers.
>
> You write in whatever shell language you need to
> do the job, using *ALL* the features that make the
> task easy to write and maintain.
>
> What if you are using csh...? Are you still
> supposed to make it compatible with sh...? Bash is
> no different than awk, perl, sed, csh, python
> which are all scripting languages.
>
> If you are a software developer that *Needs* to be
> compatible with many different Unix systems, then
> it would be a good idea, but *Not* absolutely
> necessary.
>
> For localized tasks you should use *All* the
> features of the shell of your choice and don't
> listen to the religious crap.
>
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