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On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 17:24 +0000, Andrew McRae wrote: > On 10 Dec 2006, at 09:49, Martin Ebourne wrote: > > (The linux crowd would have been much better off keeping bash for > > scripts and using zsh for interactive, yet another case of NIH > > syndrome.) > > Funny, I always thought zsh itself had the world's worst case of NIH > syndrome. The first quirk I ran into when trying out zsh is the one > that most shell scripters run into: interpolation of variables whose > values contain whitespace doesn't work the way you expect. About > which the zsh FAQ says: > > The classic difference is word splitting, discussed in > question 3.1; this catches out very many beginning zsh > users. As explained there, this is actually a bug in > every other shell. > > Now that's software with a truly hyperinflated sense of its own > importance! I've scripted quite a lot in zsh (and ksh, sh, bash) and I agree with the zsh guys on that one. Just sometimes everyone else really is wrong. Martin.There's stuff above here
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