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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sh history?
Date: 10 Oct 1995 23:17:31 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> wrote:
>>I'm using sh (I've not had a chance to install another one), ...
>Plain "sh" is minimal. No history, command line expansion, programmable
>commands, aliases etc.
Sheesh! Do you actually verify your assumptions before posting? I'm
not sure what you mean with "programmable commands", but perhaps
simple shell functions? Ok, except of file name expansion, you can
get everything else with a plain /bin/sh:
j@uriah 98% sh
$ ls
env nouucico
esrv0-uriah.heep.sax.de ps2term
esrv107-uriah.heep.sax.de rrn.5530
...
$ alias ls="ls -F"
$ ls
env nouucico
esrv0-uriah.heep.sax.de= ps2term/
esrv107-uriah.heep.sax.de= rrn.5530
...
$ set -o emacs
$ ls ## i've actually hit the up arrow key twice here!
env nouucico
esrv0-uriah.heep.sax.de= ps2term/
esrv107-uriah.heep.sax.de= rrn.5530
...
$ unalias ls
$ ls ()
> {
> echo *
> }
$ ls
env esrv0-uriah.heep.sax.de esrv107-uriah.heep.sax.de est.4501 et\
c.tar log_mg.cuaa1 mcom mmc-r01.ps nouucico ps2term rrn.5530 rrna\
ct.5530 sys_i386_isa uu xxx
$ ^D
j@uriah 99%
--
cheers, J"org
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