From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 11 17:14: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C713A3DEB for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA12449; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:59:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:59:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Joseph Norris Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: bash oddities - please explain Message-ID: <20000211165950.X17536@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from sirron@ns.mcoe.k12.ca.us on Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:24:23PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Joseph Norris [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message