Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I don't want to start a 'holy shell war'
> The normal Bourne shell is good enough for me, except I need a history!
> I get crazy retyping commands ;-) The fbsd sh does support history,
> Solaris' sh does not. OK.
>
> /If/ I must choose between tcsh or bash what would be the advantage of
> one of those two? Bash is nice, but has more of a memory print?
>
Could try Z-shell (zsh), history and completion is very good - already
supplied with Solaris base O/S. zsh is certainly my favourite shell but
then I have always preferred ksh variants over csh.

Note that it has been moved in Solaris 10

man -M /usr/sfw/share/man zsh

Amen!
John.

Why not try the ksh (korn)? Similar to bourne but has a history and
frequently used in mnay business using commercial UNIXes.

ksh
set -o vi

Then use the k and subsequent k and j keys to scroll up to down the
history. If j & k sound familiar to you, it is also the same as when in vi.
This is also a hint that the h & l keys can be used to scroll over and then
use vi commands like cw to change a work. Hit enter to execute the line
when ready. Ctl-C if you want back to a blank command line.

Very additive.

Dave


"Dick Hoogendijk" wrote in message
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>I don't want to start a 'holy shell war'
> The normal Bourne shell is good enough for me, except I need a history!
> I get crazy retyping commands ;-) The fbsd sh does support history,
> Solaris' sh does not. OK.
>
> /If/ I must choose between tcsh or bash what would be the advantage of
> one of those two? Bash is nice, but has more of a memory print?
>
> --
> dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
> ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++

quoting John Doe (Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:53:56 +0100):
> Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>> /If/ I must choose between tcsh or bash what would be the advantage of
>> one of those two? Bash is nice, but has more of a memory print?
>>
> Could try Z-shell (zsh), history and completion is very good - already
> supplied with Solaris base O/S. zsh is certainly my favourite shell but
> then I have always preferred ksh variants over csh.

Only disadvantage is that zsh is not officially supported by solaris like
the other shells are. That's why it's moved to /usr/sfw/bin.
Plus it has a rather high memory footprint.

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