On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:07:54AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > It turns out auto-completion with hinting and command history > searching are pretty addictive if you're used to having them. :)
I have auto-completion, and I know my environment well enough that hints aren't generally helpful. > > Personally, I usually just use sudo, or run bash as my first command > after gaining root powers. But it's very interesting to finally find > out what "toor" is for. I'd always wondered. Glad to be of some help. Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. Use Bourne shell (sh, not bash), or a "real" programming language (Perl, Ruby, Python, whatever). The bash option essentially tries to capture the power of such "real" languages, but does a very bad job of it -- and gives up the nigh-universal portability across Unix-like systems to do so. It's the worst of all worlds. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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