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  Non-Bourne Shells
  Non-Bourne Shells come in icky flavours
  /bin/csh - C Shell
  /bin/tcsh - C Shell w/ command line editing
  C-Shells are bad
  Inconsistant - aliases not always evaluated
  Incomplete - no stderr redirection
  Infuriating - can't include quotes in strings
  System administration requires knowledge of Bourne, so why learn CSH?
  CSH Programming considered harmful
  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Copyright 2005, Bri Hatch of Onsight, Inc.

Presented at LFNW - LinuxFest Northwest, Bellingham, Washington, Apr 2005

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