My original question was: Would doing this in the C shell solve this problem?
If so, and forgive my ignorance, does the C shell have all the usual easy to do: mkdir, mv, awk, sed, etc - capabilities? On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Stuart Jansen <sjan...@buscaluz.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 08:27 -0700, Jon Jensen wrote: > > The oldest version of bash I found is 1.14 from 1994, and it had local > > too. There doesn't appear to be a public version control repository for > > bash, oddly. Wikipedia claims bash was created in 1987, but I can't show > > whether it had local then or not. Does anyone have any older versions > > floating around? > > I don't know when Bash added the "local" keyword, but Bash is largely > based on Ksh which uses "typeset" to create local variables. > > -- > When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical > evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing > is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who > remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
