From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 1:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D7E137BDA8 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 01:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 39386 invoked from network); 9 May 2000 08:43:20 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 9 May 2000 08:43:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 12556 invoked from network); 9 May 2000 08:43:19 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (HELO maybe) (203.36.209.235) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 9 May 2000 08:43:19 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:43:18 +1000 (EST) From: Gavin Cameron To: Archimedes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I may be new....but. In-Reply-To: <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Install bash from the ports by doing the following cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 make install Cheers Gavin []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] | Gavin Cameron | ITworks Consulting | | Ph : +61 3 9642 5477 | Level 8, 488 Bourke Street | | Fax : +61 3 9642 5499 | Melbourne, Victoria | | Email : gavin@itworks.com.au | Australia, 3000 | []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] On Tue, 9 May 2000, Archimedes wrote: > Ok, this is really stumping me. > > In linux, by default, I think you get the basic shell or "bash", this shell allows you to simply hit the up arrow to go through a bunch of your previous command line commands. > > So I install FreeBSD, and lo and behold, I can find no such feature in the basic (bourne?) shell. Is there one? How about for other shells like csh and ssh? > > I may be lazy but it is such a useful feature I can't believe its not there somewhere. help me find it please. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message