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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: 26 Mar 2025 16:51:04 GMT
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:47:11 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Hmmm ... one of the things that attracted me to the Unix side long
>    long ago was the 'C-shell' ...
>    yet for some reason I never DID anything with it.
>    Perhaps time for a second look .....

I used tcsh for years and even had a Windows version. I switched to bash 
reluctantly when it became the default on most Linux distros. It was 
annoying since I had a number of aliases that had to be rewritten as 
functions in .bashrc.  I saw that more as a bug than a feature.