Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-05-05 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:31:42PM +0200, frantisek holop said that > hmm, on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:12:39PM +0200, Martin Pelikan said that > > When I sought ksh in Linux, pdksh quickly became out of the question > > since it doesn't support tab-completion at all. mksh seems to do work > >

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-05-05 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:12:39PM +0200, Martin Pelikan said that > When I sought ksh in Linux, pdksh quickly became out of the question > since it doesn't support tab-completion at all. mksh seems to do work $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 \n \l $ echo $KSH_VERSION @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Followup-to: poster Marco Peereboom peereboom.us> writes: > All lies. Nothing to see there. Just someone who took some code and > pretends it's theirs. $ man mksh | fgrep -C3 recognises AUTHORS The MirBSD Korn Shell is developed by Thorsten Glaser and currently maintained as part

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-28 Thread Francois Pussault
gt; Sent: Thu Apr 28 14:12:39 CEST 2011 > To: > Subject: Re: linux default shell, how annoying > > > 2011/4/22 frantisek holop : > > i imagine linux scripts often being full of bashims, so moving to dash > > must have meant for the debian people to go through their tree to g

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-28 Thread Martin Pelikan
2011/4/22 frantisek holop : > i imagine linux scripts often being full of bashims, so moving to dash > must have meant for the debian people to go through their tree to get > rid of those. B in which case replacing dash with pdksh for system > scripts could be fine. I guess you overestimate "the d

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:45:44PM +, Kevin Chadwick said that > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:36:45 +0200 > frantisek holop wrote: > > > on every debian i have to use, 'sudo apt-get install pdksh' is the first > > thing i do, the second being 'scp {.profile,.kshrc} debian:' > > I was going to

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:36:45 +0200 frantisek holop wrote: > on every debian i have to use, 'sudo apt-get install pdksh' is the first > thing i do, the second being 'scp {.profile,.kshrc} debian:' I was going to replace the link from /bin/sh to dash with pdksh but I'm guessing something somewhere

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:00:46PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > After getting annoyed with debian using dash as /bin/sh. Adding features > is one understandable thing affecting portability but surely you can > keep it backward compatible. I came across this description and > wondered what the lis

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:00:46PM +, Kevin Chadwick said that > "mksh is the only pdksh derivate currently being actively developed. It > includes bug fixes and feature improvements, in order to produce a > modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script > use. mksh has UT

linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
After getting annoyed with debian using dash as /bin/sh. Adding features is one understandable thing affecting portability but surely you can keep it backward compatible. I came across this description and wondered what the lists thoughts would be. "http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mksh"; "mksh