Adventure in UNIX commands

Erik E. Fair fair at dual.UUCP
Tue Feb 28 11:39:53 AEST 1984


Now that's not fair. You used an uncivilized shell! If you had been using
csh, you could alias all those commands to obvious things. Furthermore,
you could use the history mechanism to repeat things quicker.

Bourne shell, I concede, is superior to csh in it's flexibility of signal
handling, and it does OK for programming shell scripts, but god forbid
that you should ever want to use it for an interactive user interface.

	Please, Help Stamp Out Bourne Shell,

	Erik E. Fair

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