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Re: questions



On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Ofer Maor wrote:

> quite bullshit ;)
> 
> all scripts can be still on bash, while the shell you work in is on tcsh. 
> when you run a script, the shell it's on is runned again anyway. unless a 
> shell is specified in the first line in #!/bin/blabla - then it will invoke 
> the current shell - but every normal shell DOES have this line on top. I run 
> root as tcsh (although I know bash is better, but I am just used for tcsh, 
> what can I do... :) - and everyting works just fine.

Quite not bullshit ;)

I'm not sure about Linux, but in some OSs you might have a situation
where after a crash you don't have access to tcsh, since it isn't
"necessary". You might reach a stage where you can't login as root because
tcsh isn't available.

Shay

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