On Aug 2, 2007, at 9:40 PM, David Livesay wrote:

> I've already finished the script, but I'll play around with col  
> tomorrow to see how it works. I'll check out those books too. I  
> already have the O'Reilly book on csh and tcsh, but it explicitly  
> says it doesn't cover shell scripting. So does my Learning Unix for  
> Mac OS X. I have two books that say they don't cover shell  
> scripting, so I guess it was preordained that I'd have to learn  
> shell scripting. :-/

csh/tcsh are very different from sh/bash

You can't learn bash from the well-written book about csh and tcsh.   
At least not without lots of wondering about "why didn't that work?".

As I don't like the C language (or C++) I moved away from tcsh in Mac  
OS X long before Apple made the change.

   --John