Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:59:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Joseph Norris <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bash oddities - please explain Message-ID: <20000211165950.X17536@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHAEKICBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>; from sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:24:23PM -0800 References: <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHAEKICBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>
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* Joseph Norris <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us> [000211 16:56] wrote: > Hello group, > > Very new to freebsd. I am coming from a Redhat Linux environment (please no > flames - notice I said that I am coming from). I have a user on the my > Feebsd box that using bash shell. One of the things that I really like about > bash is the ability to use the up arrow on my keyboard to go backward > through the command history and run commands that I have already typed in. > Bash on Freebsd does not appear to allow this or I have not configured it > properly to do so. Additionally bash on linux allowed me to complete a file > name by typing part of the file name and then press the tab key. Freebsd > bash does not or again I don't know what I am doing (which is most probably > the case). > > Maybe Redhat does this for you already and therefore I have never had to > configure it. I would really like to have access to these features. > > Any help is most appreciated. We don't use bash for /bin/sh, install /usr/ports/shells/bash2 for bash. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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