On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:38:18PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:40:00AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > > Now the only essential package to install is a POSIX shell with interactive > > command history - i.e. "bash" - and it looks like /bin/sh has now gained > > that capability too, although sadly not tab-completion. > > tcsh is in the base system and has that capability. Except: (1) it's not enabled by default (you need "set autolist", which I only discovered recently) (2) it's not a POSIX shell. For me, (2) is serious. I don't want to use a different syntax for redirecting I/O, setting environment variables and looping over arguments, just to get tab-completion. I have done quite a lot of teaching of FreeBSD to newbies (both Unix newbies and ex-Linux users). It's a source of frustration that root's shell is different to a normal user's shell, and also that root's shell is not POSIX. Most Linux distributions solve this simply by using bash for both. Now that /bin/sh has command history, I'd definitely vote for that to be made the default shell for root in FreeBSD-6, and then csh can be left to die in peace as it should have done years ago :-) Regards, Brian.Received on Wed May 04 2005 - 11:22:56 UTC
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