Quick Question About Processes and Such

[Carl Lowenstein]

> From: Mark Seven Smith <pampaluz at cox.net>
> To: kplug-list at kernel-panic.org
> Subject: Quick Question About Processes and Such
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:32:58 -0700
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >-- #!/bin/csh -f
>
> Stewart gave me a little script, and pointed out that it could of course be 
> written in Bourne shell as well (and of course that means BASH too)...
>
> But I am wondering: since a script would load a new process, whatever it uses 
> (/bin/sh or /bin/csh), it really doesn't matter which way you go, does it?  I 
> mean, it matters not at all, if I am using Bourne shell, or BASH, or CSH, or 
> TSH, or whatever...the script will act the same, and use similar resources; 
> and conversely, it doesn't matter if you run a script that uses tsh, csh, sh, 
> or whatever, from a BASH prompt, or from a CSH prompt, or whatever...it all 
> winds up the same?  Of course, perhaps a script in one shell may work better 
> than a script from another shell, but it won't matter or make a difference 
> what shell it is started FROM, right?

It is not a question of what processes (external to the shell) are
run by the script.  It is that some shell languages make it easier to
write correctly working scripts.

    carl