From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 12 2:56: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7653EC5 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA43404; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:55:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11216; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:55:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08001; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:55:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:55:46 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Joseph Norris Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: bash oddities - please explain Message-ID: <20000212115546.C7566@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 04:24:23PM -0800, Joseph Norris 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. Have you really installed bash? The default user shell in FreeBSD is sh not bash, you should know! If you install bash from the ports I can assure you that it behaves exactly as it does in RedHat except from that it is named bash in FreeBSD! > > Any help is most appreciated. > > Thanks. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message