On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, at 14:08, Nick Holland wrote:
> Why do you think that's an "excellent idea" -- something you would
> encourage people to do? What is it that you see bash doing so much
> better than stock pdksh?
presumably those tens of thousands of lines of completely unvetted custom tab
> On Apr 2, 2024, at 20:26, Brian Conway wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
>> What is it that you see bash doing so much better than stock pdksh?
>
> Multiline command editing.
>
> (I don't use bash, but it would be a nice feature.)
I dunno. It’s a mixed bag.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
> What is it that you see bash doing so much better than stock pdksh?
Multiline command editing.
(I don't use bash, but it would be a nice feature.)
Brian
On 4/2/24 15:34, Steve Litt wrote:
...
Does "general shell" mean the interactive shell you use? If so, I think
that's an excellent idea for non-root accounts.
Ok, I'll bite...
Why do you think that's an "excellent idea" -- something you would
encourage people to do? What is it that you see
On 2024-04-02 15:34:56 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> If you mean a shell with which to run shellscripts, I wouldn't do that.
> Inside bash is a big old messy attack surface. There was a bash exploit
> several years ago (was it heartbleed?) that caused me to change all
> shellscript shebangs to
Karel Lucas said on Mon, 1 Apr 2024 18:24:06 +0200
>Hi all,
>
>Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I
>set it up that way? Bash is already installed.
>
Does "general shell" mean the interactive shell you use? If so, I think
that's an excellent idea for non-root
On 24/04/03 12:25AM, jslee wrote:
> Thirdly, I recommend avoiding using /bin/sh in the #! line if you intend
> things to be portable because:
>
> * on Linux it might be bash or dash or busybox, depending on distribution
> * on macOS it might be bash or zsh or dash, depending on the state of a
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, at 03:24, Karel Lucas wrote:
> Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set
> it up that way? Bash is already installed.
You're getting plenty of good advice here :-) I have some advice also,
hopefully good advice:
Firstly, use shellcheck
On 2024-04-01, Nick Holland wrote:
> The pdksh that comes with OpenBSD by default is very good and supports
> most of the "fancy" stuff that bash does, but is stock with the system,
> so it has no dependencies, no issues at upgrade, and is quite lean
On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Karel Lucas wrote:
Hi all,
Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I
set it up that way? Bash is already installed.
I would follow the suggestion in Nick Holland's email. I
have one more thing to add.
Using pdksh, ksh(1),
On 4/1/24 12:24, Karel Lucas wrote:
Hi all,
Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set
it up that way? Bash is already installed.
Easy to do, as several have explained how.
...BUT...
I'd really suggest not doing that.
If you are writing a script that requires
Run "chsh"
Le 1 avril 2024 18:24:06 GMT+02:00, Karel Lucas a écrit :
>Hi all,
>
>Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set it up
>that way? Bash is already installed.
>
On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 18:24:06 +0200,
Karel Lucas wrote:
>
> Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set
> it up that way? Bash is already installed.
>
https://man.openbsd.org/chsh
--
wbr, Kirill
Hi all,
Instead of ksh I want to use bash as a general shell. But how can I set
it up that way? Bash is already installed.
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