From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 26 2: 5:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF56D152DF for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 02:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:50 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (VOODOO [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id PJ2VDVLN; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:50 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 118ggc-000FN3-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:42 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 10:04:42 +0100 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Summoner , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which root shell? (was: What to tell to Linux-centric people?!) Message-Id: <19990726100442.A54684@palmerharvey.co.uk> References: <37991278.5324A70B@uswest.net> <379914D5.6DB65A6C@uswest.net> <3799EA01.4A1E60C@newsguy.com> <379AD017.F651CC0E@uswest.net> <379AD150.E2110AEA@newsguy.com> <379AF958.41E15B97@uswest.net> <19990726084001.I51019@freebie.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990726084001.I51019@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:40:02AM +0930 From: Dominic Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:40:02AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > With the exception of single user mode, you don't need to do this. > You can use sh in single-user mode and bash the rest of the time. A > well-kept secret is that /bin/sh has Emacs-style command line editing, > but you need to enable it with 'set -o emacs'. It seems to have vi > style editing too. # set -E For the truly lazy... -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator In Mountain View did Larry Wall Sedately launch a quiet plea: That DOS, the ancient system, shall On boxes pleasureless to all Run Perl though lack they C. -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message