[SunRescue] Shells

[Matthew Haas]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Eric Ozrelic wrote:
>
> What shell does everybody like to run? I've used tcsh before and I like
>

I know it's not the smallest or most efficient, but I'm a bash fan... the
only thing keeping me to bash is the scrollable command history,
tab-completions, and easy keyboard mappings. (use of home and end keys)...
otherwise csh looks really nice.

> 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
>

yeah, this was an annoying problem for me when I started playing with
SunOS and Solaris... I ended up grabbing the gzip source, ungzipping it,
and ftping a tar archive of it, then compiling it and getting it all set.

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