Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:45:40 -0500 From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, arch@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Importing mksh in base Message-ID: <09787468-8771-4CF7-9A8B-649E6E52B03F@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <a8135eb3-e0f0-1458-b36f-27a9f6250a66@quip.cz> References: <20190125165751.kpcjjncmf7j7maxd@ivaldir.net> <CALH631keUjj8qUomFY4nT2Mij9T7AWwFEGLDok=6zaaPx4T8DQ@mail.gmail.com> <20190126064128.Y872@besplex.bde.org> <F6CE1B6D-F5BF-4089-89B7-AE5DB3E7C1ED@freebsd.org> <a8135eb3-e0f0-1458-b36f-27a9f6250a66@quip.cz>
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> On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:46 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: >=20 > Daniel Eischen wrote on 2019/01/25 21:15: >>> On Jan 25, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >>>=20 >>> I have used /bin/bash as the root shell for more about 20 years. The >>> currently install version is slightly newer -- only about 15 years old >>> (bash-1.14.7(1) installed by mv'ing it from /usr/local/bin where some >>> port put it. >> Just picking a recent post to reply to... >> I've used bash on FreeBSD as the default shell for many years, ever since= it became a port. But I don't change root's shell, because I don't want it= pointing off to /usr/local. If there were a base bash-like shell, I'd use i= t so long as it had tab completion and up/down arrow for history recall. >=20 > You must be joking. tcsh has tab completion and up / down arrow history re= call ... and in my feelings much better than in bash. But it all depends on h= ow you configured it (bash and tcsh can be heavily modified by their rc file= s). I didn't say that tcsh didn't have it, just that I'd want mksh to have it. A= lso, we mostly standardize on bash for network (ldap, active directory) acco= unts, so it would be nice to have a default shell that was more like bash. -- DE=
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