shells (was: Re: [ILUG] useful tip...)

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:07:58PM +0000, Charles Sharp wrote:
> And "~-" is shorthand for $OLDPWD.  Very useful for cp'ing, as in:
> 
> cp ~-/foo .

awesome!  thanks!  i've been typing sh more and more in tcsh - mainly
for for loops and if statements, i thinks this cements it - nearly 10
years on and i'm finally graduating from my college shell to bash.

before i make the switch, does anyone here use zsh?  opinions?

kevin

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