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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:39:06 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash can not find most of my commands
Message-ID:  <20110222203906.GA3608@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimXgCDtS6BdjH4xXW6Bebro2vn6U5azoK3ikhDP@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:07:54AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>=20
> It turns out auto-completion with hinting and command history
> searching are pretty addictive if you're used to having them. :)

I have auto-completion, and I know my environment well enough that hints
aren't generally helpful.


>=20
> Personally, I usually just use sudo, or run bash as my first command
> after gaining root powers.  But it's very interesting to finally find
> out what "toor" is for.  I'd always wondered.

Glad to be of some help.

Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash.  Use Bourne shell (sh,
not bash), or a "real" programming language (Perl, Ruby, Python,
whatever).  The bash option essentially tries to capture the power of
such "real" languages, but does a very bad job of it -- and gives up the
nigh-universal portability across Unix-like systems to do so.  It's the
worst of all worlds.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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