[SunRescue] Shells

[Lyndon Griffin]

That sounds like a good start to a holy war!  Personally, I'm a Korn shell
guy.  Many people prefer BASH.  For the best of both worlds, try zsh
(which I think is dubbed "the system administrator's shell").  zsh does
all of the cool stuff of both bash and ksh, and supports a lot of extended
globbing, to boot.

For gzip, head off to http://sunfreeware.com/.  zcat is a part of the gzip
distribution - if you don't have one, you're not likely to have the other.
Once you download the gzip package (s/b something like
gzip-sol7-sparc-local) issue the following command (as root)

# pkgadd -d gzip-sol7-sparc-local

see the man page for pkgadd(1M) for more details.  bash you should be able
to find at sunfreeware.com, also.  You may also find a tcsh package
there.  I'm not sure about zsh - you may have to build it on your own.
Make sure you get the 2.03 version of bash, if that's your choice.

<:)  Lyndon Griffin
http://www.bsd4us.org

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Eric Ozrelic wrote:

> What shell does everybody like to run? I've used tcsh before and I like
> it but does it work on Solaris 2.7? If it does work, does anybody know
> where to get the newest version. Oh, one more
> thing I'm having problems uncompressing tared archives (ex: file.tar.gz) . I
> noticed
> Solaris doesn't have gzip/gunzip. How might one get around this
> pesky problem? I've tried "zcat file.tar.gz | tar -xvf -" but it always
> gives
> me an error. Please forgive me if my questions seem simplistic and stupid
> but I'm really new to Solaris and new to Unix in general (all the stuff
> I've learned has been on BSD based Unix flavors)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eric Ozrelic
> aka ProjektSUN
> 
> 
> 
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