Possible big in C-Shell

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Sat Mar 24 00:31:58 AEST 1990


> Does anybody know what seems to be the problem?

The problem is that csh doesn't actually parse its control structures,
it just works on a command-by-command basis and does simple string searches
for keywords.

> (Perhaps it serves me right 
> for using csh when I have ksh :-)

For shell scripts, either ksh or sh is better than csh. For interactive
use, either ksh or csh is better than sh. Use the right tool for the job.
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