I'm considering installing csh or tcsh on my LL 4.0 system - not as my main shell, but to use on the rare occasions when I do shell scripting. I notice those additional shells are available in the Synaptic package manager. That said,
a) would installing csh (or tcsh) be likely to screw up anything that is pre-existing on my system?
b) would you recommend installing csh/tcsh? (a totally different question, I know).
I'd love to get some guidance from the LL community on either or both of these questions. Please answer as little or as much as you are willing to - any information is helpful here.
Optional background - only read if you want to know this: The reason I am even considering a csh-based system for scripting is that I used it years ago on Unix. It "made sense" to me in a way that bash (still) doesn't, but possibly that's just because csh / tcsh was the first shell I ever used. I guess I wanted to see if going back to one of those shells would make me feel more "at home" when I do any scripting.
a) would installing csh (or tcsh) be likely to screw up anything that is pre-existing on my system?
b) would you recommend installing csh/tcsh? (a totally different question, I know).
I'd love to get some guidance from the LL community on either or both of these questions. Please answer as little or as much as you are willing to - any information is helpful here.
Optional background - only read if you want to know this: The reason I am even considering a csh-based system for scripting is that I used it years ago on Unix. It "made sense" to me in a way that bash (still) doesn't, but possibly that's just because csh / tcsh was the first shell I ever used. I guess I wanted to see if going back to one of those shells would make me feel more "at home" when I do any scripting.
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