Monday, August 1, 2011

Re: sh vs bash syntax coloring

zsh.

2011/8/1 <ranousse@gmx.com>:
>> You can put this option somewher in ~/.zshenv. Or, better, use zsh syntax for
>> it:
>>     !action=(xpdf -option) ; ... ; $action file
>>     !action="xpdf -option" ; ... ; ${(z)action} file
>>     !action="xpdf -option" ; ... ; $=action file
>> in last case it is just one more character to type, in the first case you should
>> type exactly the same number of characters, but two of them are different. These
>> methods are not the same under all circumstances, but are the same here.
>> I actually hate using bash for scripting: how do you like using
>>     command "${array[@]}"
>> where in zsh you type just
>>     command $array
>> . You have to also turn your mind on remembering that you must use quotes around
>> any parameter if you want it to come in one piece and unmodified.
>>
>> I would likely choose zsh, perl, python for scripting but not bash.
>
> Ok thank you. I think this will be sufficient for my need.
> Actually I didn't say bash was better than zsh, but I learnt sh syntax
> first (not even bash, so no array at all it seems) and I don't know zsh
> one. I only write small scripts ;-)
> But I'm sure you're right.
>
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