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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:59:50 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Joseph Norris <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bash oddities - please explain
Message-ID:  <20000211165950.X17536@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHAEKICBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>; from sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:24:23PM -0800
References:  <LOBBKDNLDIJBMCHJKLLHAEKICBAA.sirron@mail.mcoe.k12.ca.us>

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* Joseph Norris <sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us> [000211 16:56] wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> Very new to freebsd. I am coming from a Redhat Linux environment (please no
> flames - notice I said that I am coming from). I have a user on the my
> Feebsd box that using bash shell. One of the things that I really like about
> bash is the ability to use the up arrow on my keyboard to go backward
> through the command history and run commands that I have already typed in.
> Bash on Freebsd does not appear to allow this or I have not configured it
> properly to do so. Additionally bash on linux allowed me to complete a file
> name by typing part of the file name and then press the tab key. Freebsd
> bash does not or again I don't know what I am doing (which is most probably
> the case).
> 
> Maybe Redhat does this for you already and therefore I have never had to
> configure it. I would really like to have access to these features.
> 
> Any help is most appreciated.

We don't use bash for /bin/sh, install /usr/ports/shells/bash2 for bash.

-Alfred


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