I've read about 30% of your email and just have to sack out. It
is just past 04:00 and my eyes are starting to glue shut. And
hey, once them shut, I'll bang into stuff before I can get to my
bed!!
More coming tomooor-- Hm. Since this *is* tomorrow,
then in around some N hours.
S'all, folks!
-g
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 11:01:31AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:45 -0800, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc
> > into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff.
> > Need something simpler.
>
> As far as I know, there is no automatic converter for csh -> sh
> config files. Basically, the C shell has these:
> - system-wide:
> /etc/csh.cshrc, /etc/csh.login, /etc/csh.lougout
> - per user:
> ~/.cshrc, ~/.login, ~/.logout
> I'm a csh user for most dialog use, because bash's interactive
> abilites force too much interaction (especially regarding
> completition) in the default configuration. But I'm more and
> more thinking to switch to bash permanently, as soon as I've
> beaten bash's misbehaviour out of its source code. :-)
>
> The system's sh uses /etc/profile and .profile in the same
> manner. Then there is bash, which I think uses the following
> files according to "man bash", section FILES:
>
> /etc/profile
> The systemwide initialization file,
> executed for login shells
> ~/.bash_profile
> The personal initialization file,
> executed for login shells
> ~/.bashrc
> The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
> ~/.bash_logout
> The individual login shell cleanup file,
> executed when a login shell exits
> ~/.inputrc
> Individual readline initialization file
>
> You have to know about the different syntax definition for
> both file types, but it's relatively easy.
>
> setenv ENVNAME envstring -> ENVNAME="envstring"; export ENVNAME
> -> export ENVNAME="envstring"
>
> set VARNAME = 'varstring' -> VARNAME="varstring"
>
> alias aliname 'alistring' -> alias aliname="alistring"
>
> All the config files allow regular sh coding sequences (such
> as the use of conditionals or iterators).
>
> To get a standard prompt in bash, use this:
>
> export PS1="\...@\h:\w\$ "
>
> It is the equivalent to csh's
>
> set promptchars = "%#"
> set prompt = "%...@%m:%~%# "
>
> Note that csh does automatically use % or # according to the
> first setting. I'm not sure how bash handles this.
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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