Re: Is there a super shell that can recognize and interpret commands from all other shells?

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:13:42 -0400

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:41:48 +0000 (UTC), Kenneth Wong
  <cs9e-1av@solar.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> I'm currently taking a Unix course and am learning to use the tcsh
> shell. However my book does not differentiate between commands for
> different shells. Is there a shell out there that can take command
> arguments in any form existing in any shell?

The problem with such a shell is that the same command can mean
different things in different shells, for example the "set" command.
What is the name of your book? Most introductory Unix books use the
Bourne shell, but I see you are from Berkeley, the home of BSD Unix
and the C shell. 

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