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Migration guide?
Authored by: hayne on Mar 10, '03 09:40:22PM

As has already been remarked above, the main reason why people write scripts in 'csh' is that they are used to 'csh' from using it interactively (in Terminal). Someone should write a migration guide for people (like me) whose default shell has been 'csh' (or 'tcsh') for many years and who therefore have a lot of inertia that works against changing shells. Such a guide would show the equivalents of such 'csh' things as aliases, foreach loops, etc, and point out the "gotchas" (e.g. my experience is that whitespace matters more in 'sh' than it does in 'csh' but I'm not sure where & how.)



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