want shell should I learn 9
On 2006-01-05, Peter T. Breuer
If you limit yourself to simple commands, then yes, tcsh is adequate.
That doesn't happen on on any version of tcsh I have (on Linux, FreeBSD or NetBSD).
To each his-her own. If you have learned bash-ksh-zsh, you'd have to unlearn it to write...
If that's what you want, you can bind the up arrow key to history-search-backward. I've always used it with Shift-UpArrow, but I just installed it on the unmodified UpArrow. Hmm.. I quite like it there. Thanks.
But most people don't have large numbers of tcsh scripts; they do have Bourne-type scripts.
By using bash at the command line, I can easily cut and paste code to and from scripts and the command line.
Or why!
What's silly about wanting to run segments of my scripts at the command line?
Please take off those blinkers and try to understand that being able to program at the command line increases productivity.
Your atbreastude reminds me of the comments I used to get when I stated using an Amiga 20 years ago:
Why on earth do you need multi-tasking? You can only do one thing at a time.
Why does a business computer need coloured graphics an sound?
Until you've tried it, you may never understand.
-- Shell Scripting Recipes: My code in this post, if any, A Problem-Solution Approach is released under the 2005, Apress GNU General Public Licence
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