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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>Someone must be using /bin/sh as a shell, because apparently someone
>spent a lot of time adding things like character input editing, filename
>completion, etc.  We even use "sh" as the default in adduser(8).

Command-line editing is required for POSIX compliance.

Tony.
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