[rescue] bash: bumbling anomalous shell

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at 13:52:59 (+0200), Jochen Kunz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] MipsPro Compilers
>
> On 2002.04.29 06:41 George Adkins wrote:
> 
> [ksh]
> > Yeah, but can I run bash scripts in it?  Does it have tab completion?
> > command history? Job Control?  
> At least pdksh (used as ksh in NetBSD) does all this: 
> http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/
> With 
>         VISUAL=emacs
>         bind ^I=complete
>         set -o braceexpand
> in your ~/.profile it will be very bash like. 

Ouch!  That hurts!  PDKSH _WAY_ better than bash!  :-)

(indeed it's nearly as good as ksh93i! -- which is of course now freely
available)

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