[Sussex] workaround script
Thomas Adam
thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org
Sun Oct 3 21:33:53 UTC 2004
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:27:56PM +0100, John Crowhurst wrote:
> #!/bin/tcsh
^^^^
You know that in general use tcsh is considered harmful. In _scripting_
though, it should not be used. Why are you not using bash or zsh?
> Its horrible, especially as I couldn't work out how to get joe to work in
> perl, or I would have built in traps for empty strings and fixed the
system() in perl will, if I follow what you're asking.
> backup file so that it works with other paths.
>
> For instance, joe filename works, but joe path/to/filename doesn't.
It works fine here.
-- Thomas Adam
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