Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:42:19 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backtick versus $() Message-ID: <20110225004219.bfbbbd77.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <21929_1298589484_4D66E72C_21929_309_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BD35499F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102201027170.56885@wonkity.com> <4D61599E.4040008@gmail.com> <AANLkTinJKcy8NyFzW9=6yKEY%2BF_payQVM108_=B7Gyjr@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T210222-768@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTinQ4MMwWq77k1t-SwqE%2BzPep6VCNS9AKdT_H08b@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T214917-136@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTik88V5Bb2BWM0Kpv3rWfek9_%2BgjqmEt6UbsVjpS@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20110224T220407-811@post.gmane.org> <AANLkTikAB--0Hrw76cbdzgfmeJMPt_N7isaw%2Byn_-QMn@mail.gmail.com> <20110224234044.0df661c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110224225425.GB13490@guilt.hydra> <20110225001301.e4f6d95f.freebsd@edvax.de> <21929_1298589484_4D66E72C_21929_309_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BD35499F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:18:03 -0600, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote: > Everyone is wrong! "pfmsh" is the best at everything, period. > It does everything you can possibly think of today and tomorrow. > It doesn't require any upgrades, ever. It's 100% secure. > It doesn't use any memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't > even need to be installed; it just "magically" works. > > There you have it. The standard reply to "is better" or "is the best" is "I don't like" followed by any arbitrary attribute, like "but I don't like the color" or "I don't like the file names". :-) Meanwhile, I've looked into mksh and found out that giving it a standard prompt (user@host:path$) is not very easy and involves copying two lines from the manpage (search for PS1) into a config file. It's not that you can use bash's prompt 1:1 (or csh's). Completition and history behaviour is nice, better than bash, in my opinion, and equal to csh (which I prefer in this regards). Oh "prefer" - it's all very individual, that's why the system's default shell should be replaced by punched cards. Everyone likes colorful punched cards. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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