From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 11 1:55:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from g38.rdsbv.ro (catv-193-231-237-197.rdsbv.ro [193.231.237.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B655937B417 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from k (petre@petre [192.168.10.5]) by g38.rdsbv.ro (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fBB9tHx15744 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:55:17 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Petre Bandac Organization: g38 Subject: Re: bash newbie question Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:55:04 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <01121021283600.00268@k> <3C150EE7.6C1DAF0@acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <3C150EE7.6C1DAF0@acuson.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01121111545202.00308@k> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org what I ment is if I can make bash look 100% like the linux bash it's already installed - however, what bother me is that the auto-completion of the command doesn't work like in linux - I mean if there I typed "tr" and TAB I got the commands starting with "tr" [tr traceroute trap troff true tryaffix], while here I must type "trace" and TAB and only then I get the traceroute. must I understand that this is the only auto-completion of the command I shall get in freebsd ? also - I was used to have some colors on the screen after a :-) so, resumig, the question I have for those of you more experienced in freebsd is: must I expect a 100% similarity in bash freebsd-linux or the port to bsd is quite "incomplete" ? sorry for bothering you with such minor problems, petre On Monday 10 December 2001 21:37, David Johnson wrote using one of his keyboards: > Petre Bandac wrote: > > are there any settings that I can modify to make the shell look > > 100% like the bash from linux or the tab key won't be here so "helpful" > > like in linux ? > > Why not just use bash? Tcsh is nice, very nice compared to some shells. > But it doesn't have the whiz-bang features of bash. And it sucks for > scripting. > > Bash is on your CD, or build it from ports. > > David -- 11:46am up 10 min, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.20, 0.10 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message