Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 19:58, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > *** Mandatory Trigger Warning /begin *** > Brain-dead noobie post dead ahead! > *** Mandatory Trigger Warning /end *** > > I have learned the hard way not to mess with the shell superuser > is supposed to use. I rarely go to su, but it would be pleasing > if, when I do, I had two features available from the shell: > filename completion, and some sort of command history and > recall. > > Can some Good Samaritan please point me to a HOW-TO that would > provide the needed basic instructions? You want ksh, both as user and as root. This is my .shrc as standard user but you can use it and adapt it to root: # $NetBSD: dot.shrc,v 1.3 2007/11/24 11:14:42 pavel Exp $ if [ -f /etc/shrc ]; then . /etc/shrc fi case "$-" in *i*) # interactive mode settings go here ;; esac # if running ksh if [ -n "$KSH_VERSION" ]; then # include .kshrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.kshrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.kshrc" fi fi And my .kshrc : export HISTFILE=$HOME/.ksh.history export HISTSIZE=1000 PS1='$(whoami)@$(hostname):$PWD$ ' export PAGER="less" export LESS="-i -m +Gg" export TERM=xterm -- Ottavio Caruso
Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote: Can some Good Samaritan please point me to a HOW-TO that would provide the needed basic instructions? Thank you all! And, yes, Mike gets two extra Fig-Newtons on his plate tonight! -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. Russell
Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
On 31/07/2020 20:11, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: >> Can some Good Samaritan please point me to a HOW-TO that would provide >> the needed basic instructions? >> >> Thank you. >> > set -E Enable emacs style command line editing. There is a Vi style one as well. set -o tabcomplete Turn on tab completion for filenames. With both of these set sh has file completion, history and editing. All found through judicious searching of the output of man sh. ;) Only slightly counterintuitive bit is that set -o tabcomplete turns it on and set +o tabcomplete turns it off. Running set -o with no additional arguments displays the options that can be set. Mike
Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
1) $ su # exec my-favorite-shell 2) read the /bin/sh man page and figure out how to turn them on. you did read that before posting, right? 3) learn how to use sudo signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
On 2020-07-31 11:58, Bob Bernstein wrote: *** Mandatory Trigger Warning /begin *** Brain-dead noobie post dead ahead! *** Mandatory Trigger Warning /end *** I have learned the hard way not to mess with the shell superuser is supposed to use. I rarely go to su, but it would be pleasing if, when I do, I had two features available from the shell: filename completion, and some sort of command history and recall. Can some Good Samaritan please point me to a HOW-TO that would provide the needed basic instructions? Thank you. You shouldn't need to use su, as sudo and doas are available in the package repository/ports tree. If you really want to run a different shell as the root user when you use su, you can just call the shell you want to use: $ su # zsh % Regards, Jordan
OT: User-friendly /bin/sh
*** Mandatory Trigger Warning /begin *** Brain-dead noobie post dead ahead! *** Mandatory Trigger Warning /end *** I have learned the hard way not to mess with the shell superuser is supposed to use. I rarely go to su, but it would be pleasing if, when I do, I had two features available from the shell: filename completion, and some sort of command history and recall. Can some Good Samaritan please point me to a HOW-TO that would provide the needed basic instructions? Thank you. -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. Russell
