Timeline for 'switch' based on shell
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| Oct 22, 2015 at 0:43 | comment | added | cas | anyone writing csh scripts should be advised not to and referred to perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot and shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/csh Way back in the dark ages of the 1980s, csh made a pretty decent interactive shell because it had neat features like history recall and editing. Other, better, shells have long since gained and surpassed those features without the drawbacks of csh. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 23:18 | comment | added | terdon♦ | The OP specifically mentioned csh which, among its many other failings, is most certainly not POSIX-compliant so this isn't likely to help them much. | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 22:59 | history | answered | chaos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |