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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting On how to select the right tool for a given task Post 302248591 by cfajohnson on Saturday 18th of October 2008 01:37:10 PM
Old 10-18-2008
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Originally Posted by bakunin
sed is a programmable text filter, nothing more, nothing less. Why its use should be limited to files when its normal modus operandi is to work in a pipeline eludes me.

For efficiency in both time and resources.
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csh is not the standard shell (mostly because three is no such thing as the standard shell at all),

There certainly is a standard shell. It is specified in the Open Group Base Specifications.
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but it is a standard shell of course.

Though it is included in most, if not all, *nixen, csh is not required by the UNIX specification.

Scripts written for a standard shell will not run in csh.
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Conceded it is outdated, its bugridden and its use is - rightfully so - discouraged. But i don't know any Unix derivate without a C-shell. SAP even has all its start- stop- and installation-scripts use csh and the SAP admin user is configured to have csh as default shell.
 

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SPLASHY-CONFIG.XML(5)					 Splashy POSIX boot splash system				     SPLASHY-CONFIG.XML(5)

NAME
Splashy - a user-mode, POSIX and LSB compliant, boot splashing system for UNIX. SYNOPSIS
/etc/splashy/config.xml - Splashy's configuration file DESCRIPTION
/etc/splashy/config.xml sets splashy's behaviour during boot, shutdown inter-runlevel and error. It is an XML file where all values are enclosed in tags A tag is anything enclosed between < and >. An opening tag has the form "<tag>" while a closing tag has its name preceded with a backslash () character as in "< ag>" Tags can be considered as folders. Each tag either contains tags or contains a value The value of the final tag affects in the field defined by its parents tags The following tag folders are supported: <splashy> This tag is mandatory. It contains all splashy's configuration values, listed below. The following values are supported: <themes> Absolute path to the directory containing the installed splashy themes. Default: /etc/splashy/themes <current_theme> Name of the theme to use. It must be the name of a directory in <themes>'s value's directory. Default: default <default_theme> Full path to a theme to fall back to if the theme specified in <current_theme>'s value can't be found. Default: /etc/splashy/themes/default <pid> Full path to the PID file splashy will use to store its PID so that other processes can know if it is running. Default: /var/run/splashy.pid Comments can be introduced by enclsing them between <!-- and -->. Blank lines are also ignored EXAMPLES
The following is a complete and valid splashy configuration file: <splashy> <!-- themes directory: conventional path /etc/splashy/themes --> <themes>/etc/splashy/themes</themes> <!-- current theme could be relative the themes defined above or full path --> <current_theme>default</current_theme> <!-- full path to theme to fall back in case of problems. DO NOT CHANGE --> <default_theme>/etc/splashy/themes/default</default_theme> <!-- this defaults should be ok --> <pid>/var/run/splashy.pid</pid> </splashy> NOTES
Values are refered by their tag name prefixed with all of its parent tag's names. For example: "/splashy/pid" FILES
/etc/splashy/config.xml Main configuration. Defines how splashy should be setup /etc/splashy/themes/ Location where splashy themes are stored SEE ALSO
splashy(1), splashy_config(1), splashy_config(1), splashy-theme.xml(5) AUTHORS
Jacobo Vilella <jacobo221@gmail.com> perl v5.12.1 2010-07-05 SPLASHY-CONFIG.XML(5)
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