Bash v/s Cshell - Functions and their definitions - useful 'type' keyword

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:41:00 +0100

Hey if you have worked on Linux then you have interacted with bash. Maybe not. But it is mostly likely that your default shell is bash. I’m not surprised. I’m among the few people on this planet who regularly interacts with cshell also. Thanks to the kind of work I do.
One great feature of bash that I miss in cshell is: Functions.
Surprised? Cshell doesn’t support functions. It doesn’t have any concept of function. If you wanted to simulate a function, you have to write another cshell script that does what your function would do and define an alias that calls it.

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Bash v/s Cshell - Functions and their definitions - useful 'type' keyword