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From: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-admin-ml@schottelius.org>
To: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
Cc: Chuck Harding <charding@llnl.gov>, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bash question
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 20:19:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040403181917.GD213@schottelius.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16492.40316.611081.63832@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk>

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Glynn Clements [Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:53:48PM +0100]:
> Chuck Harding wrote:
> 
> > How about
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > for ((i=1;i<11;i+=2))
> 
> I haven't heard of this before. It must have been introduced fairly
> recently; it isn't supported by bash 2.03 or any 1.x version.

Just to point to another nice shell: zsh4.1.1 does support this
and much more.

I really don't understand why you all bind yourself to bash for scripting!

Bash is slow, big and comfortable. Scripts don't need comfort.

I always use 'ash' (much smaller/faster) for scripts and 'zsh' (much more
nice extensions and still at least as fast as bash) for normal use.

Nico

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-03 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01  0:45 bash question Scott@Charter
2004-04-01  7:03 ` Luca Ferrari
2004-04-01 14:58   ` Jeff Largent
2004-04-01 19:46     ` Chuck Harding
2004-04-01 22:53       ` Glynn Clements
2004-04-02  9:32         ` urgrue
2004-04-03 18:19         ` Nico Schottelius [this message]
2004-04-19  1:07 ` Joao Victor A. Di Stasi
2004-04-19  1:14   ` Joao Victor A. Di Stasi
2004-04-19  1:42 ` Stephen Samuel

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