gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (06/03/90)
Hi. I used CSH and SKSH all the time, I was just wondering whether or not the authors had any intention of making these more UNIX like. For instance, if I put an ampersand at the end, fork off a new shell and execute the commands in the background. It would probably make quite a bit of sense if the shells were totally reentrant that way you could save a ton of memory space. Also, what about command expansion on the command line, ie foreach i ( `grep con stuff|awk -f stuff.awk` ) ... Also, is there any intention of adding more the stuff that can be found in CSH? I've also noted a bug or two in CSH 4.01A (It's been there for a long time as far as I can tell). Piping doesn't work very well. That is to say, piping to commands internal to the shell. Also, the file permissions don't work correctly. I have an A2500/30. When I do an ls and another ls a short while later, I sometimes get different results. Thanks, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 565 South Zeeb Rd. | something that actually makes sense, you need to Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 662-1506
koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (06/05/90)
> Hi. I used CSH and SKSH all the time, I was just wondering whether or > not the authors had any intention of making these more UNIX like. > For instance, if I put an ampersand at the end, fork off a new shell > and execute the commands in the background. It would probably make quite Yes, I would like to do that, but it means something else besides just "running" an external binary in the background. For example, you can do something like this in ksh: ( while true do rm ~/.sh_history 2>/dev/null sleep 30 done ) >/dev/null 2>&1 & And you have run a shell construct in the background. Well, it would be very easy for me to add that capability in SKsh (since it supports the rest of the stuff), but I am missing one important capability in AmigaDos without which it is very difficult to accomplish that. If this capability ever appears in a supported and usable manner, I will certainly make SKsh t. In the meantime, you will have to be content with running external binaries in the background. - steve
kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) (06/06/90)
(example of & run-in-background stuff deleted)
And you have run a shell construct in the background. Well, it would
be very easy for me to add that capability in SKsh (since it supports
the rest of the stuff), but I am missing one important capability
in AmigaDos without which it is very difficult to accomplish that.
If this capability ever appears in a supported and usable manner, I
will certainly make SKsh t. In the meantime, you will have to be
content with running external binaries in the background.
- steve
What's the missing capability?