[18700] in Athena Bugs
Re: Bash init files suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jan 26 21:18:21 2001
Message-Id: <200101270218.VAA24042@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Stephen Gildea <gildea@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:49:55 EST."
<200101261849.NAA16711@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:18:16 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> We don't have a .cshrc.mine? That's news to me. (Uh, how many
> years behind does that make me?)
I mistyped; of course we have .cshrc.mine. I meant we don't have a
.login.mine.
> Doesn't work in traditional sh, but POSIX specifies that it has to
> work, and it does work in Bash.
So it does. I think we'll stick with the more portable style in our
scripts, since it's not terribly cumbersome, but this is good to know.
