On 2020-05-05 6:39 AM, Wendell Lovewell wrote:
Installing Rocket's bash provided the cursor history scrolling I was looking
for.
I don't perceive a difference between TERM=xterm+256color and TERM=xterm in the
command-line-only functions I use. (I don't see any coloring in the ls or
other output for either value.)'
bash doesn't add colors. "ls" is a system binary not a builtin. On linux
systems colors are supported in the GNU binaries and configured using
the LS_COLORS environment variable.
I have "bash" as the last line in /etc/profile. This seems to work, but I do have to enter "exit" twice to
close the window. Is there a way to invoke bash so that this is not necessary? I'm also not sure if this matters, but
"echo $SHELL" still shows "/bin/sh", not "/bin/bash".
Are you sure you want to configure /etc/profile to invoke bash for every
user? I would invoke it from the .profile config file in your home
directory.
This is how I do it:
# We want to switch to bash
BASH=/rsusr/ported/bin/bash
# switch to bash
export SHELL=${BASH}
exec ${BASH} --login
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