[geeks] Thoughts on bash for root

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:28:39PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, April 21, 2002 at 01:19:57 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> > Subject: [geeks] Thoughts on bash for root
> >
> > On Solaris, is it safe to change root to use bash?
> 
> Please!   Not that horrid ugly buggy monstrosity called bash.
> 
> What's the matter with /usr/bin/ksh for goodness sake?
> 
> If you really want a freeware shell for root then pdksh should be fine,
> but it's not really as good as /usr/bin/ksh.

ksh doesn't meet the arrow test.  Meaning if a shell doesn't let me use the
arrow keys to flip through previous commands, then it is inadequate.


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Joshua D. Boyd