a.out 1> file.out 2> file.err in cs

Barry Shein bzs at encore.com
Tue Nov 1 06:24:10 AEST 1988


From: billd at celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson)
>In article <216100007 at s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Is there any real reason *why* the csh didn't use the Bourne shell
>>notation for file redirection? I find the #> notation simple, clean,
>>and easy to use, whereas the csh version is obtuse and less powerful.
>
>Does anybody out there know to Bill Joy.  Maybe you could ask HIM to
>answer that one!

I may be wrong but that's ok, consider the consequences...

I believe the csh was based on the V6 shell which pre-dated the Bourne
shell.

	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||



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