I just wish everyone would switch to zsh which seems to be the best of both worlds. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: > Just out of curiosity, Bob, why did you switch from tcsh to bash? > > I suppose it'll start a religious war, but I actually TRIED switching > to bash and then went back to tcsh. The "killer app" for me was that > tcsh (from csh) had gobs of better pathname-editing operators (like > dropping the extension), easily available; and a more familiar > syntax. bash offered unfamiliar syntax, didn't have my beloved $i:r > operation, and although it was better for programming, I figured perl > was better than the shell ANYWAY.... > > > There! That should roil the waters a bit! -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org