4NT vs. Bash (Was Re: problem with find/grep)

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Properly TITTTLing...

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Daniel Miller (IMI) wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > I won't ask the implied "Why not use bash?" question...
>
> Hokay, then I won't answer!!  I suspect this subject has been discussed
> several times in the past here, if I recall past perusal of the list... but
> there really *are* a few things that 4NT does better (or does at all) as
> opposed to Bash.
>
> I'll admit, tho, that if I hadn't already paid for 4DOS/4NT (over a decade
> ago, actually), I wouldn't buy it now, with Bash available for free...
>     Dan

So, what *are* those things?  It'd be interesting to find out where bash
is deficient, and what tools could be used in Cygwin instead...
	Igor
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