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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: Is replacing /bin/sh with bash recommended? In-Reply-To: mike@calypso.bns.com.au's message of 26 Mar 1996 23:13:40 +1030 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcd7mw73ld5.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) Lines: 34 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4ih5qb$lae@blackice.winternet.com> <4ik5p6$qm6@helena.mt.net> <DoJrqo.6F9@twwells.com> <4j0sto$scs@calypso.bns.com.au> <4j4fmh$5e8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4j8ops$pfo@calypso.bns.com.au> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:49:42 GMT Our friend, mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson), wrote: > j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > >mike@calypso.bns.com.au (Michael Talbot-Wilson) writes: > > >> The third is to compile GNU fileutils with > >> the color patch for ls. It's a pity this is not all done for us > >> in the distribution. > > >There would be far too many people disagreeing with you in this point. > > What point? that /bin/ls is gnu ls. freebsd is not using GPL'ed utilities as much as possible. there is also the fact that some of us really do not like color ls's. You have _two_ ports that do this. You should be happy with that :) > An ever-diminishing > band of hair-shirted purists, rejoicing in our rejection of > ease-of-use features, deriving our self-esteem from our exclusiveness, > preciousness, intellectual hypertrophy, and rarity? What kick do you > get out of this, Joerg? How about there is plenty of information in an ls -F that more just really obscures it for me. Hell, I use syntax highlighting in emacs, but it drives me mad with gnu ls. > Try it. Acquire the capacity to judge whether or not it is a useless > toy. Be more polite or go away. I suspect he has. I know that I have. It drives me up the wall.