csh vs sh (was: fixing rm *)

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

In article <114 at gsgpyr.hac.com> jrich at devnet4.UUCP (john richardson) writes:
>In article <754 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>>Indeed you are.  You're even better off not writing Csh scripts.
>Has there been a past discussion of writing scripts for csh vs. sh?

I love the C-shell for interactive work, and feel as though I'm in a
straitjacket when I have to use the Bourne shell.  But to quote from
the BUGS section of the manual page for csh(1):

     Quoting conventions are contradictory and confusing.

     Although robust enough for general use, adventures into  the
     esoteric  periphery  of  the  C-Shell  may reveal unexpected
     quirks.

That's rather a damning confession.