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4NT vs. Bash (Was Re: problem with find/grep)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "Daniel Miller (IMI)" <dan at imi-test dot com>
- Cc: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:08:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: 4NT vs. Bash (Was Re: problem with find/grep)
- References: <013001c4b07a$9a10afa0$0401a8c0@dan>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Properly TITTTLing...
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Daniel Miller (IMI) wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > I won't ask the implied "Why not use bash?" question...
>
> Hokay, then I won't answer!! I suspect this subject has been discussed
> several times in the past here, if I recall past perusal of the list... but
> there really *are* a few things that 4NT does better (or does at all) as
> opposed to Bash.
>
> I'll admit, tho, that if I hadn't already paid for 4DOS/4NT (over a decade
> ago, actually), I wouldn't buy it now, with Bash available for free...
> Dan
So, what *are* those things? It'd be interesting to find out where bash
is deficient, and what tools could be used in Cygwin instead...
Igor
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