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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:08:01PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>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...
>
>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...

I don't think that bash has an equivalent to the "eset" command.

eset allows you to edit the path or other environment variable.

cgf